Friday 15 January 2010

What to do?

J.I. Packer: "More Catechesis, Please" says this great man of the Church.
"Biblically challenged Overcoming scriptural illiteracy" is the title of another recent article that I have collected and read.
Similar concerns are presented and my sense of the situation here in Australia is that there is a serious illiteracy among Christians even though the resources are manifestly available to address this.
"Bless and save me now and then Heaven" is the substantive notion of today. To take up your Cross and follow Christ is an optional concern. ( I reread this and found it totally out of order. Yet sadly it does seem to be an attitude which prevails. )
That the Gospel is the proclamation that Christ the Messiah by His Death and Resurrection is LORD over ALL and that because of this He calls us Home Now in order that in this life we might by our lives be signs that the Kingdom has come and is coming. We are Light ..... Salt
( sign of the Covenant ) and living as sheep among wolves. A VERY CHALLENGING BLESSING.
Until a change occurs the label for this post remains.

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