Agustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed.
Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.
There's no such thing as an unsent Christian. You have already been SENT.
The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone.
The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.
The fact is that if Jesus's future kingdom is secure, those who trust in its coming will enact it now.
Our preferences for stability and security blind us to the opportunities for adventure when they present themselves.
Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
I'm not a prophet or a teacher, I just ask questions. I don't think a writer should be a teacher, but should know how to pose the questions and explain the problems.
Art is like an avalanche being poured down your throat. You know it's going to crack, eventually it's going to go out of fashion. I wish there was much less happening. I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year.
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all is fiery and yet dark,-a solitary hell, without suffering or sin,-we would do well to commit ourselves to the guidance of a living poet of the true faculty,-Thomas Aird and see with his eyes.