It is easier for a slave to become a rich person than for a rich person to become a slave.
Paul identified himself as a slave of Christ. So pumped up in haughty self-sufficiency, how can we expect Americans who do not struggle in the midst of existential insecurities to become slaves to someone who demands everything from followers? It's not the parts of us that are the simplest or most rational to give up that Jesus demands one give away to follow him. It's everything. It's every part of your soul, every part of your material comfort and being, every part of your mind, every part of your family, and everything that requires human beings to be attached to this world. Most of us do not have the conceptual framework to understand this even though many of us will give ample lip service to the calling that is required of those who presume to follow Jesus.
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It's hard to figure out at what point we are to live without our material comforts. If we give it all up and become homeless for God I'm not sure we'd be doing anyone any good. I have stuff, we all have stuff. I guess it's how you look at the stuff is what's important. And what you do with it.
i agree it is the way we relate to our comfort as opposed to the idea of being comfortable. yet, the question is how much our comfort blinds us to what is demanded of us….
It's hard to figure out at what point we are to live without our material comforts. If we give it all up and become homeless for God I'm not sure we'd be doing anyone any good. I have stuff, we all have stuff. I guess it's how you look at the stuff is what's important. And what you do with it.
i agree it is the way we relate to our comfort as opposed to the idea of being comfortable. yet, the question is how much our comfort blinds us to what is demanded of us….