We Must Move

Preach it Father:

"We must move from a belief-based religion to a practice-based religion, or little will change. We will merely continue to argue about what we are supposed to believe and who the unbelievers are."
(Richard Rohr, The Naked Truth, p. 108)

Comments

[Dave]

hmmm.Interesting comment.Ties in with what I am reading right now...and luxuriating in just the 36 page Introduction in Moltmann's Theology of Hope.He covers in detail the question of living in the Present rather than diluting it to nothing in anticipation of the Future, which of course when it arrives becomes the transient Present! Have we not been guilty of this escapism??

Pascal raised the question: "Is not the present the only time we wholly exist?" Goethe got the point: The Eternal has to be present to us in every moment.
Even Hegel and Nietzsche were onto it with the thought that it is only in the Present, the kairos, the "now" that being (life) is itself present in time.
My point? Let tomorrow take care of itself resting in the joy of 1 Cor. 2:9 Our beliefs have to manifest themselves NOW-TODAY in practical actions, and the world will come running to the real Jesus
DRT

[lynne]

I'm reading this now...gotta admit it, he's stretching me in ways I wasn't expecting!