List the people you admire and look to for advice…
So I am hoping not to repeat myself. Yes, Jesus. But also (in no particular order):
Do you vote in political elections?
In Australia, where I happen to live, everyone over 18 must vote. Either you vote (and, yes, they check your name off from a list) or you get a fine.
So I vote without any passion for the political system.
Hear me out!! What if all the reforming movements (within Christianity around the world) have themselves fallen into the worst heresy of all? Christendom needs reforming. But Christendom is not Christ.
Not faith, not works, not right doctrine “save”. Only Jesus!!!! And Jesus is not an idea, not a book, nor a doctrine. Jesus is a person. A person who seeks an encounter with me, not an experience. No institution can give me that encounter since it is fundamental personal and individual. Jesus calls me. Jesus calls you. It is Jesus and the individual! Anything outside of that is heresy. Anything apart from the person of Jesus is not relevant.
So let me ask a question (for a friend): can a heretic be saved? Or, using Kierkegaard’s questions, what is better: a heretic with passion or christendom without passion?
A couple additions to the blog:
Precepts, duties of life according to the BCP summarised by Bishop John Cosin.
Life in the Desert, Chapter 6 of the Life of St Mary of Egypt – a snapshot of early monasticism.
What gives you direction in life?
Not a what but a who: Jesus. The encounter with the eternal in the temporal and the infinite in the finite.
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?
THE SAME OBJECT SHOULD PRODUCE IN SEVERAL MEN’S MINDS DIFFERENT IDEAS at the same time;
Locke, John. John Locke: Complete Essay on Human Understanding, 161
[The capitals are in the original – not yelling! Also the gender specific language.]
How do I know that your experience of reality is the same as my experience of the same “object”?
The question that no one asked: what is your header image? I am not sure where I found it but here it is:
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche may not have actually written the above but it is within the spirit of his other works. There is a realism about it: some are ostracized because others do not understand them.
I am desireth to return to writing this blog. I am finding myself thinking about topics that I could expand upon on this blog. It will take a different slant. Yet still the same wakey content!
a fool and his prayer book 