The Irresistible Revolution, Ch. 5d (p 146-153)
Another Way of Doing Life
Another Way of Doing Life
Thanks, Travis, for posting your thoughts and discussion questions. I trust it won't be the last time.
(a) "For us, belief is only the beginning. What really matters is how we live, how what we believe gets fleshed out, so we also have a statement of orthopraxis (meaning, 'right living, right practices')" (p 147-148).
I think these are what he's referring to: Our Commitments & Our Foundation and Functionality.
The bottom line is action--Matthew 21:28-31, James 1:22, Matthew 7:24. "Talk is cheap."
(b) "What the world needs is people who believe so much in another world that they cannot help but begin enacting it now" (p 149).
How strongly do I believe in another world? In what specific ways can I live as a citizen of that world while walking in this one? What principles guide me?
(c) "We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, but we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself" (p 151). --Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What does this mean for you? What injustice gets you fired up? What solutions do you see? What are you working on? Do you care about so many that it's hard to get traction on dealing with any of them?
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