Loo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-ser
More thoughts from NT Wright .
“…the way to Christian growth is often to allow oneself to be puzzled and startled by new apparent complexity. There is great simplicity at the heart of this picture, but it is costly. The price it demands is sustained attention to the specific, and to us strange and perhaps even repellent, first-century ways of thinking that characterized Jesus. Is it after all Jesus we want to discover and follow, or would we prefer an idol of our own making?”
A great deal of the world prefers one sort or another of an idol. Truly knowing Jesus requires a level of self-abasement that very very very very very very very very few people aspire to.
After all, followers of Jesus are called to be perpetual losers of the battle. Our minds don’t have a category for ideas like this—except for that circular file in the corner.
