Comments on: Suffering and Escape http://nakedpastor.com/archives/31 david hayward is an artist trapped inside an pastor's body Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:54:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Brian Metzger http://nakedpastor.com/archives/31#comment-33 Thu, 25 May 2006 16:06:19 +0000 http://nakedpastor.com/archives/31#comment-33 A newspaper in St. Louis used to have, as their motto, "To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Pretty sure they've stopped using that. Our society has clearly embraced a 'take a pill' way of life that sees comfort and lack of trouble or pain as the best life. That not only ignores that almost everything great has come at a terrible price for someone but it also tells those who experience suffering to keep quiet because only the abnormal suffer and the rest of us really don't want to hear about it. Sadly, I think this has come so far into the Church and our theology that it has crippled us beyond the community Jesus imagined we would be. Crippled by our wellness. Time to readjust. A newspaper in St. Louis used to have, as their motto, “To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Pretty sure they’ve stopped using that. Our society has clearly embraced a ‘take a pill’ way of life that sees comfort and lack of trouble or pain as the best life. That not only ignores that almost everything great has come at a terrible price for someone but it also tells those who experience suffering to keep quiet because only the abnormal suffer and the rest of us really don’t want to hear about it.

Sadly, I think this has come so far into the Church and our theology that it has crippled us beyond the community Jesus imagined we would be. Crippled by our wellness.

Time to readjust.

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