This is so good. Thank you. The sermon I heard yesterday in church on this gospel left me baffled…the gist of it was Jesus was urging agency…immediate action in the face of threat. I like this better.
I similarly love this and thank you. However, there is also the issue that sometimes our intelligence negates the universalist heresy we see from the Church. I was running yesterday and I saw a guy which I then changed course to deliberately avoid - why? Don’t really know but I trust my intelligence to have noticed something ill-favoured about him. One of the notable things that the Holy Spirit has done in me is help my intelligence assert itself over my heart which it has been proven in a long and painful learning curve.
This is so good. Thank you. The sermon I heard yesterday in church on this gospel left me baffled…the gist of it was Jesus was urging agency…immediate action in the face of threat. I like this better.
I similarly love this and thank you. However, there is also the issue that sometimes our intelligence negates the universalist heresy we see from the Church. I was running yesterday and I saw a guy which I then changed course to deliberately avoid - why? Don’t really know but I trust my intelligence to have noticed something ill-favoured about him. One of the notable things that the Holy Spirit has done in me is help my intelligence assert itself over my heart which it has been proven in a long and painful learning curve.