MIND OF TRUTH

Finely, my 300 th post My first LIFE blog post was on November 30, 2006.  A lot has happened in the past four years.  I've been thinking about what to post for the big 300 and I want to share a warning of sorts. Many of the things I have written are foolish and crazy and you would be foolish to consider one word of it.  The real gospel of Jesus Christ is only for people who are insane and hate their own life. Why would anyone want to loose everything, intentionally put themselves into impossible situations, and wait for a supernatural being to come bail them out?  Who does that and lives to tell about it?  Who wouldn't regret ever making decisions like that? If you like being cast out, misunderstood, beaten down, and walked on, then please go right ahead and obey the Word.  If you like being maligned, rejected, persecuted, and dismissed, then you should follow Christ and you'll get your wish.  Think carefully before you commit to this because it will cost you everythin

Read this in section on "Marriage" in the book "Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ" by Dallas Willard and wanted to share some thoughts on it. "Today there is about a fifty-percent divorce rate in America, and the rate is not much lower for professing Christians. But the problem is not divorce - though divorce generates a set of problems all its own. The problem is that people don't know how to be married. They don't actually get married in many cases, though they go through a legal and possibly a religious ceremony. They are, sad to say, incapable of marriage-the kind of constant, mutual blessing that can make two people in conjugal relationship literally one whole person (Eph 5:22-23). It is not their fault. In their world, how could they know? Who would teach them? This is the soul-searing fact at the heart of our modern sadness." - Dallas Willard (Renovation of the Heart) I believe this mariage dilema is just one of ma