Friday, July 28, 2006

Cultivating spiritual greed

At Shizuka Blog, Jared takes issue with the idea of victorious Christian living:
The problem over time is that, going from victory to victory, expecting victory after victory, cultivates a contagious form of spiritual greed. (Is it any wonder that this sort of teaching often goes hand and hand with talk of financial riches and prosperity?) The real stuff of discipleship -- what Eugene Peterson calls "a long obedience in the same direction" -- involves hard stuff like discipline and the fruit of the Spirit. In pop discipleship discipline is replaced by steps, tips, and amazingsupercolossal breakthroughs.

It's good to see Jared blogging again.

2 Comments:

Blogger Jared said...

Milton, thanks so much for the link. You are too kind, sir.

6:58 PM, July 28, 2006  
Blogger Milton Stanley said...

Not at all. Shizuka is one of my favorite blogs. Peace.

7:04 PM, July 28, 2006  

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