tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post4347530423905979201..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: “We’re All Bastards”LKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-79433137502686113162010-07-22T18:16:17.544-05:002010-07-22T18:16:17.544-05:00A review article by John Wilson about Sara Miles a...A review article by John Wilson about Sara Miles and her two books was published today on the "Christianity Today" website. The address is http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/july/23.51.htmlLKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-24918933507221134092010-07-21T10:53:31.181-05:002010-07-21T10:53:31.181-05:00The email from your thinking friend in Japan hits ...The email from your thinking friend in Japan hits directly at the point that I struggle with daily. Will Campbell's definition of the human condition and the corresponding good news hits like a bolt of lightening. Until one sees and is horrified by the abyss that each of us faces and is, grace is not understood or appropriated. In many ways doing church has the opposite result in that it shields us or hides us from the hideousness which we have become. It is pride (the penultimate sin and ultimate death of the soul) that makes us think that the pig in the mud is actually a prince that deserves and warrants the Creator's attention and respect. It is only by grace that my pig nature (no offense intended to those of the porcine persuasion) has any chance of being transformed into the new nature of the Christ.DHJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18034507180227927247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-31323238918880147362010-07-21T05:54:32.246-05:002010-07-21T05:54:32.246-05:00A Thinking Friend who is a former missionary to Ja...A Thinking Friend who is a former missionary to Japan made this comment on an e-mail:<br /><br />"Those of us who grew up in Christian families and were nurtured in the church know little about grace as compared with those who grew up in non-Christian environments -- like many of the Japanese I have known and others from even worse backgrounds."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-26585462417233208832010-07-20T15:24:51.285-05:002010-07-20T15:24:51.285-05:00I am reading Sara Miles' book now, at your hig...I am reading Sara Miles' book now, at your high recommendation. I really like the way she is able to accept all the ragtag people who come to the food pantry, and I also like her principle of saying what she really thinks. When she said, "I hate the Russians." in the food line because they were so pushy, I was a little jarred and read it 2-3 times to believe she had been so un-pc.Junehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02808459840359259581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-56146723321488512482010-07-20T12:27:41.463-05:002010-07-20T12:27:41.463-05:00I appreciate the insightful comment above--and the...I appreciate the insightful comment above--and the reference to Yancey's book, which I have already noted to use in the thirtieth chapter I mentioned. It is a great book.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-71047971464742021182010-07-20T12:20:40.005-05:002010-07-20T12:20:40.005-05:00Philip Yancy's book, "What's So Amazi...Philip Yancy's book, "What's So Amazing About Grace?" illustrates the concept well. Grace is such a drastic form of love to comprehend, and stirs up emotion because it goes so far. The "bastard" always seems welcome, yet a total 180 seems to be the caveat. I imagine most can embrace the metaphor, but arrogance impedes its implementation.1sojournernoreply@blogger.com