A man going to work and doing his job, earning a pay check, coming home and praying with his kids, catechising them, and then going to bed having relations. That's life. And people can do all that to the glory of the sovereign god. I've just been working through some of the calvin's writings that relate to monasticism. Calvin says a actually a mother at home, changing dipers, has a real vocation,. whereas a nun in the cloister, spending her day on herself and her own soul's salvation, is an offence against god. It isn't a calling at all. In fact, it's offensive because god is not pleased.
Have you noticed that words like “extreme” and “revolutionary” have ironically become part of our “ordinary” vocabulary, even in the world of contemporary Christianity? We’re constantly being encouraged to “transform the world,” to pursue “radical discipleship,” or simply to do “big things for Jesus.” But what is the cost of this continual use of superlatives? The hosts, with the help of Tish Harrison Warren, discuss this issue and point to a recovery of “ordinary discipleship” in a world of hype (originally aired 09-01-13).
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