Status Updates From Surprised by Hope: Rethinki...

🤣“the problem is that much theology, having lived for so long on the convenience food of an easy-going tolerance of everything, an ‘inclusivit’y with as few boundaries as McWorld, has become depressingly flabby, unable to climb even the lower slopes of social and cultural judgment let alone the steep upper reaches of that judgment of which the early Christians spoke and wrote”

Fascinating discussion on paradise, purgatory and hell. ..” once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should – not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God’s joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God?”

“What you do in the present […] will last into God’s future.
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It’s no good falling back into the tired old split-level world where some people believe in evangelism in terms of of saving souls for a timeless eternity and other people belueve in mission in terms of working for justice, peace, and hope in the present world.”

Re: Matthew 6:20-21
“ if I say to a friend, ‘I’ve kept some beer in the fridge for you.’ that doesn’t mean that he has to climb into the fridge in order to drink the beer.”