because it is incapable of returning the favour."
It was something spoken to me almost 2 decades ago. The priest/professor/confessor who spoke that to me was wise enough to recognize some of the more subtle temptations of the Christian life, especially for those who are "clergy".
The Anglican Church - "throw a tent over it and call it a circus".
Over at the sol cafe site, steve the z left a bit of a comment:
We may even be just that rest stop for the odd Christian traveller. The point in their trip where they find that they're feet hurt from walking around and just want to sit and enjoy a slower moment. Maybe confused by programs and movements in the mainstream Christian world, or just tired, as it is hard work being a Christian in many churches.
Maybe they want to laugh and enjoy the company of believers that will let them be, just be. We let people choose if they come to sol, and choose why they may or may not come again, as best we can without pressure or guilt. We pray, read scripture and do our best to worship, but we do all that as a unique community exposed to the world.
This week the sol will gather at 5ish at Cafe Dabar, and we'll be (somewhat) guided by the readings for the week:
March 18 - Fourth Sunday in Lent
Joshua 5:9-12
Psalm 32
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Luke 15:1-3; Luke 15:11-32
The gospel reading is the story of the return of the prodigal son, or the story of the love of the father, or the story of the impatience of the elder brother. It is also the story of the imagined taste of the scraps in the foreign land, the bitter taste in one's own mouth of the words of confession, the real taste of forgiveness at the Father's table.
It is a call to come home.
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
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