tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9901815.post8291115494425660511..comments2023-06-04T14:47:02.324+01:00Comments on a sideways glance: Lessons from the widow at the templesimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470335172330595542noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9901815.post-60463264883577874772009-06-12T10:51:08.374+01:002009-06-12T10:51:08.374+01:00I was struck by how well this illustration of '...I was struck by how well this illustration of 'radical downward mobility' chimes with the example of the suffering church in Revelation. Both are a kind of anti-Prosperity Theology: a reversal of the gospel that I see spreading even in the local church. (Not in the Baptist Church, I hasten to add.)<br /><br />It's a very cynical piece of in-house secularism, I think, to assume that Jesus could want no more from us than to be happy, healthy, beautiful and rich... And one which guarantees Christian extinction within a generation or two, if it continues unchecked.<br /><br />Which I think is what the artist Robert Lentz was trying to convey in his 'Christ of Maryknoll' icon; the challenge to meet Jesus where He really is... at the margins. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.cacradicalgrace.org/conferences/psca/pics/cloud_of_witnesses/med/05%20-%20Lentz%20-%20Christ%20of%20Maryknoll%20adj.jpg" rel="nofollow">Link</a>Bennoreply@blogger.com