My Lenten Reflection
“Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think this sums up my frustration with some ideas of faith. here, Bonhoeffer is basically summing up Luther's "sin boldly" statement. Honestly, I've never really been able to quite wrap my head around this legalistic idea of faith that, as Kevin Smith explains in Dogma, is more or less God threatening to spank us when we screw up.
A Messy World
During Christmas we celebrate that God became human and entered this dirty, flawed and often shitty world. John's Gospel says the Word dwelt among us. God took on all the filth of being human. Jesus did not forsake the pain of humanity to enjoy the joy; he became all that is human.