tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post2813100868783155013..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: "What are we doing here?"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-72475175073343774062014-05-20T15:21:11.265-05:002014-05-20T15:21:11.265-05:00I think there's some comfort in the fact that ...I think there's some comfort in the fact that personal transformation can't be easily effected by the ubiquitous techniques of marketing, advertising, and mass entertainment.<br /><br />It remains true, I think, that almost anything worth doing is going to be, in some way, costly ("teure"). I use that word deliberately because I've recently started reading the original of what I read many, many years ago as a college freshman, Bonhoeffer's Cost of Discipleship. Coming back to it after so long it's eye-opening to see the perennial appeal of "cheap grace" and how it continues takes so many forms in every communion. The paradox of the yoke of Christ, which is easy, and also requires everything of us, is hardly sound-bite-able. And most of us, even when we are consciously committed to it, flee from it like crazy.rick allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07612435616018593956noreply@blogger.com