{"id":25750,"date":"2010-08-05T15:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/christ-the-life-of-the-church\/"},"modified":"2010-08-05T15:07:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T19:07:14","slug":"christ-the-life-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/08\/christ-the-life-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Christ, the life of the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you thinking about the Transfiguration yet? You know, tomorrow’s feast. I think an excerpt from Samuel H. Miller’s The Life of the Church<\/i> (p. 44ff) gets me pondering the person of Christ and who I want to be. And you?<\/p>\n

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He<\/b> was careless about himself, we are careful.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> was courageous, we are cautious.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> trusted the untrustworthy, we trust those who have good collateral.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> forgave the unforgiveable, we forgive those who do not really hurt us.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> was righteous and laughed at respectability, we are respectable and smile at righteousness.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> was meek, we are ambitious.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> saved others, we save ourselves as much as we can.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> had no place to lay his head and did not worry about it, while we fret because we do not have the latest convenience manufactured by clever science.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> did what he believed to be right regardless of consequences, while we determine what is right by how it will affect us.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> feared God but not the world, we fear public opinion more than we fear the judgment of God.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> risked everything for God, we make religion a refuge for every risk.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> took up the cross, we neither take it up nor lay it down, but merely let it stand.<\/div>\n
He<\/b> was a scandal to the Jews proud of their tradition, a scandal to the scribes proud of the law, a scandal to the priests proud of the temple, scandal to his family proud of respectability, a scandal to the disciples proud of their ambitions.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you thinking about the Transfiguration yet? You know, tomorrow’s feast. I think an excerpt from Samuel H. Miller’s The Life of the Church (p. 44ff) gets me pondering the person of Christ and who I want to be. And you? He was careless about himself, we are careful. He was courageous, we are cautious. … Continue reading Christ, the life of the Church<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[32093,2505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}