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Pursuing the Revolutionary Tradition

"This is the most complete revolution that has ever been preached; in fact, it is the only true revolution, because all the others demand the extermination of somebody else, but this one means the death of the man who, for all practical purposes, you have come to think of as your own self." - Thomas Merton

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Carefully Choosing Who We Follow

Do you want to know you are following somebody worthy of the name of Christ? Let me suggest this litmus test for their actions: Are their lives characterized by laying down their own lives so that others might live? Or are they taking life from others so as to amass life for themselves? According to Jesus and Paul, the former is the way of Christ, the economy of the gospel. The latter is a much darker (if broader) road.


- Daniel Kirk


Posted by rheimbro at 5/28/2009 12:33:00 PM  

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