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JAMES LANSBERRY's avatar

β€œDesire to live at peace. So often I think our mindset is the culture war, the idea that we must dominate our neighbor, rather than demonstrate to our neighbor the love of Christ.” Yes. This is perhaps me chief central grief with respect to todays American church. Heat and garlic over salt and light.

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Bill Barnes's avatar

Perhaps not even relevant but I shared this with a brother this morning from Bonhoeffer: "When a man really gives up trying to make something of himself...then he wakes with Christ in Getshsemane." This world we've manufactured (certainly not created) takes us so far from our brother in Gethsemane. It is a world of phantoms.

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