Posted by Kevin Bates on June 22, 2003, 12:38 pm, in reply to "Labor in Crisis" The stories you mention are symptoms of this I reckon - I often check my own heart out along the same lines and catch myself out in the comfort zone too! - and begin to adjust again. The gospel is a relentless pursuer - and we need to keep calling each other back to it eh. Kevin --Previous Message--
Good call Sue - Richard Rohr once commented that that whenever the demands of the gospel, especially in the areas of justice, demand too much of us, all the churches without exception slip a protective screen between themselves and the gospel to save themselves the trouble of really hearing.
: Hi Kevin, have found many of your comments
: quite interesting. In your latest,
: "Labor in Crisis", you mentioned
: the need now for an
: "alternative" voice to speak for
: "...justice, common sense...".
: Don't mean to stir here but isn't that
: what our Church is suppose to be doing?
: Insted of leading the way and in a sense
: being counter cultural we find it
: hypocritical and materialistic! Recent
: experience of our catholic nursing home,
: the most expensive nursing home in the
: area, at risk of losing accreditation
: because it has failed in 6 critical care
: areas. Our local catholic college leaning
: toward elitism because of all the
: "extras" offered, with an excuse
: of "user pays" etc, (tends to be
: those with the money in the first place
: are the only one's who can afford the
: "luxuries") leave me wondering
: if there is a place for people like me who
: truly try to live a gospel life? Who try
: and live by the words in Acts..."...I
: have neither silver nor gold, but I will
: give you what I have...". Bit
: simplistic I know, perhaps that's the
: problem! Thanks for all you do to
: "stir the pot"
:
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