No, I tell you, but rather division.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\nHe desires fanatically to bathe the world in fire and to have himself baptized in blood.<\/p>\n
His suffering and death on the cross bring to the world division, not peace.<\/p>\n
Faith in Christ can divide family members from each other<\/p>\n
Our faith in Christ puts us at odds with some of the sensitivities, preferences and agendas of the world we live in.<\/p>\n
The scandal of our following Christ and his cross is that we must suffer to do so.<\/p>\n
It is the scandal that God who is love has become flesh and blood without his erasing suffering and injustice from our world, but throwing himself into the fire of suffering and injustice.<\/p>\n
But in that very way he has shown that love has no conditions or limits neither in the spirit nor in the flesh.<\/p>\n
He scandalizes us.<\/p>\n
Do we believe in him and follow him even if it means we suffer fire and a bloodbath?<\/p>\n
Or do we let lesser things than martyrdom scare us away from imitating Christ\u2019s fanatical love?<\/p>\n
Do we just blend in with the world around us?<\/p>\n
Fanatical but sincere and genuine following of Christ will put no limit on the obedience of love.<\/p>\n
Merely looking<\/strong> <\/em><\/span>like a fanatic is not the Christian goal.<\/p>\nNonetheless, the clear and simple practice of ordinary charity and ordinary justice can at times call for deeds and a lifestyle that some might see as fanatical.<\/p>\n
Call it fanaticism, or call it zeal: a sincere will to live out our faith in Christ will make for DIVISION<\/strong> <\/span>between us and many things, ways and persons in the world we inhabit.<\/p>\nHowever, the hardest part is that the DIVISION<\/span> <\/strong>must take place WITHIN<\/span> <\/strong>each of us as well.<\/p>\nThat is because we have a tendency to sin.<\/p>\n
Through Christ had no tendency to sin, he nonetheless also suffered temptation.<\/p>\n
However, he was also driven by the Holy Spirit, and has poured the same Spirit into us.<\/p>\n
We, too, have already been baptized in the fire of the Spirit and in the Blood of Christ.<\/p>\n
These will bear fruit in us if we freely cooperate.<\/p>\n
Our Christian fanaticism must bring forth the virtues, gifts and fruits of the Spirit, which burned in Christ and brought him to a baptism in blood.<\/p>\n
Here now in the Body of Christ\u2013 AND IN DAILY LIFE<\/span><\/strong>\u2014 let us also burn.<\/p>\nHere now in the Blood of Christ\u2013 AND IN DAILY LIFE<\/span><\/strong>\u2014 let us also be baptized.<\/p>\nOnly so shall we rise to Christ in body and in Spirit.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Turn. Love. Repeat.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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