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A (Wo?)Man After My Own Heart

July 26, 2008

Ok, I don’t know exactly who this author is, but they are my new best friend!

I came across this excellent post a while back, and now this one from which I offer just a few poignant lines.

The reason the church must be sectarian is not because the world is too big, too dirty, or too messy; it is because it is too provincial, too small, too sanitized, too inoculated.

(C.S. Lewis thought like this)

…it is absolutely essential that the church be sectarian if it is going to truly be the church. Attempts to mitigate sectarianism are attempts to make the church and Christianity less churchly and less Christian. As such, these impulses must be rejected for the sake of faithful discipleship. Moreover, the sectarian imperative does not mean the withdrawal of the church from the world. Rather it is a call to a more radical way of being worldly, of doing world.

(Hauerwas thinks like this)

The church is the world being recreated through the Spirit of the risen and ascended Messiah.

(NT Wright thinks like this)

Great stuff Halden, thanks and keep it comin! (ht: Ben’s Blog)

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