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love & living - part 3
Another good discussion on the second part of our Merton passage last night - this time with two new friends. We actually found that I had mis-typed a part of the quote on part 2 - I fixed it - it's not right below. It appears now that God really DID wish to come and pitch his tent among men. Wheeew. I'm glad. Anyway, we'll be continuing our discussion next Tuesday night with the following passage. I'll be careful this time.
This is precisely the "new commandment" which is at the heart of the "new covenant" or "New Testament," that is to say, the new relationship between man and God, the very essence of the teaching of Christianity. The teaching of the Gospel is that men are no longer servants of God, no longer bound merely to complex ritual observances and obscure legal systems known only to experts. Men are free from the domination of abstract religious systems that can only be understood by specialists. They are sons of God and brothers of one another, united in a community of freedom and love in which their law is love and in which they are guided by the Spirit of God dwelling in the Church and in each of its members - the Spirit of sonship, of freedom, and of love.
| posted by + Alan | 7:23 PM |
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