Just came back from a family holiday in Rome. We stayed next to The Coloseum, which even in its skeletal remain, was an imposing and grand sight to behold.
Christian martyrs had made their confession of faith here, and as a result, were mauled by wild animals.
But the Church has survived and thrived throughout the centuries, while the glory of Caesars' Roman empire faded.
A reminder that the prevailing empires of our day will one day give way to the Kingdom of our Lord and Christ.
PS: MBS will be offering two night classes for the coming semester, Elemental Hebrew & Counselling I (every Thursday) from 7.45 pm - 9.30 pm... Anyone interested?
I also used to play a gamebook called "Arena Of Death" based on the colosseum, where I role-played as knight, monk, barbarian, Amazon warrior princess... etc.
Christian martyrs had made their confession of faith here, and as a result, were mauled by wild animals.
But the Church has survived and thrived throughout the centuries, while the glory of Caesars' Roman empire faded.
A reminder that the prevailing empires of our day will one day give way to the Kingdom of our Lord and Christ.
PS: MBS will be offering two night classes for the coming semester, Elemental Hebrew & Counselling I (every Thursday) from 7.45 pm - 9.30 pm... Anyone interested?
I also used to play a gamebook called "Arena Of Death" based on the colosseum, where I role-played as knight, monk, barbarian, Amazon warrior princess... etc.
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pay-off:
"A model for churches and theologians to contribute to the ordering of society, without being Christianly imperialistic...
to the critique of society, without being Christianly dualistic."
Hedonese
by Francis Schaeffer, from The God Who Is There (1968)
"I do not ask for answers, I just believe." This sounds spiritual, and it deceives many fine people. These are often young men and women who are not content only to repeat the phrases of the intellectual or spiritual status quo. They have become rightly dissatisfied with a dull, dusty, introverted orthodoxy given only to pounding out the well-known cliches. The new theology sounds spiritual and vibrant, and they are trapped. But the price they pay for what seems to be spiritual is high, for to operate in the upper story using undefined religious terms is to fail to know and function on the level of the whole man. The answer is not to ask these people to return to the poorness of the status quo, but to a living orthodoxy which is concerned with the whole man, including the rational and the intellectual, in his relationship to God.
"upper story" - term used to denote that which, in modern thinking, deals with significance or meaning, but which is not open to contact with verification by the world of facts which constitute the "lower story."