The Task Of The Prophet Is Not

Like A Child Exploring The Attic Of An Old House On A Rainy Day, Discovering A Trunk Full Of Treasure And Then Calling All His Brothers And Sisters To Share The Find, Richard J. 'foster Has 'found' The Spiritual Disciplines That The Modern World Has Stored Away And Forgot, And Has Excitedly Called Us To Celebrate Them. For They Are, As He Shows Us, The Instruments Of Joy, The Way Into Mature Christian Spirituality And Abundant Life.

Real Faith Is Refined In The Fires And Storms Of Pain.

Every Call To Worship Is A Call Into The Real World.... I Encounter Such Constant And Widespread Lying About Reality Each Day And Meet With Such Skilled And Systematic Distortion Of The Truth That I'm Always In Danger Of Losing My Grip On Reality. The Reality, Of Course, Is That God Is Sovereign And Christ Is Savior. The Reality Is That Prayer Is My Mother Tongue And The Eucharist My Basic Food. The Reality Is That Baptism, Not Myers-briggs, Defines Who I Am.

People Learn To Shop For Churches; There Is No Loyalty To The Church. They're Consumers Being Attracted To One Product Or Another. I Think It's Sacrilege, To Tell You The Truth, It Really Is.

Classically, There Are Three Ways In Which Humans Try To Find Transcendence--religious Meaning--apart From God As Revealed Through The Cross Of Jesus: Through The Ecstasy Of Alcohol And Drugs, Through The Ecstasy Of Recreational Sex, Through The Ecstasy Of Crowds. Church Leaders Frequently Warn Against The Drugs And The Sex, But At Least, In America, Almost Never Against The Crowds.