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A site that publishes some brief articles and other teaching of Father Thomas Reeves, the Priest/Pastor at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Bloomington, IL (stmattsblm.org)

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

K.I.S.S.?




Might I suggest to all of us a more complex, deep, and trusting Christianity in the Triune God who is the reason of all life and hope? Might I suggest that the simple easy to control God that we often seek to create, is a god of our own choosing and making?

C.S. from Mere Christianity, chapter on the Trinity:


"I warned you that Theology is practical. The whole purpose for which we exist is to be thus taken into the Life of God. Wrong Ideas about what that life is will make it harder....It is the simple religions that are the made up ones..."

C.S. reflecting on the historic Christian community:

 "...the one really adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community, waiting for Him together...that is why all these people who turn up every few years with some patent simplified religion of their own as a substitute for the Christian tradition are really wasting their time...if Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is NOT... anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about"

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