Comments on: A promise for gangsters http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/09/07/a-promise-for-gangsters Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:24:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Phil http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/09/07/a-promise-for-gangsters/comment-page-1#comment-123 Phil Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:58:26 +0000 http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/09/07/a-promise-for-gangsters/#comment-123 Soulster, Hi, bro! Thanks for these thoughts and the quote! I have saved a pdf copy of the e-book for my library. I'm still learning to dump years of conditioning (to be afraid and self-preserve), and live the dangerous life of love with Jesus. His love, power and promise are for everyone! Blessings, Phil Soulster,

Hi, bro! Thanks for these thoughts and the quote! I have saved a pdf copy of the e-book for my library.

I’m still learning to dump years of conditioning (to be afraid and self-preserve), and live the dangerous life of love with Jesus. His love, power and promise are for everyone!

Blessings,

Phil

]]> By: soulster http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/09/07/a-promise-for-gangsters/comment-page-1#comment-122 soulster Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:14:33 +0000 http://wayoflifevillage.org/2007/09/07/a-promise-for-gangsters/#comment-122 Amen, bro. I was confronted by something I was reading this morning as to why there seems to be a lack of "courageous obedience" to God's vision of how things should be: "the tendency of Christians to intellectualize ethical issues is in direct proportion to the extent they have become part of the power establishment." It's time for me to come to terms with my dismissal of gangs as dangerous and beyond help. It lies in an intellectualism that coolly analyzes the problem and pronounces it hopeless -- except perhaps for the crushing response of law enforcement. Sounds like the kind of cowardly excuses that explain why the King can't go and reign where he wants to just so the soldier (me) can remain comfortable and safe in his decadent bed. By the way. The quote is from "<a href="http://www.plough.com/ebooks/pdfs/Jesus.pdf" rel="nofollow">Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution</a>," a free e-book written by a French pastor who hid Jewish refugees during the Nazi takeover and provided by a Christian neomonastic community. Amen, bro. I was confronted by something I was reading this morning as to why there seems to be a lack of “courageous obedience” to God’s vision of how things should be:

“the tendency of Christians to intellectualize ethical issues is in direct proportion to the extent they have become part of the power establishment.”

It’s time for me to come to terms with my dismissal of gangs as dangerous and beyond help. It lies in an intellectualism that coolly analyzes the problem and pronounces it hopeless — except perhaps for the crushing response of law enforcement. Sounds like the kind of cowardly excuses that explain why the King can’t go and reign where he wants to just so the soldier (me) can remain comfortable and safe in his decadent bed.

By the way. The quote is from “Jesus and the Nonviolent Revolution,” a free e-book written by a French pastor who hid Jewish refugees during the Nazi takeover and provided by a Christian neomonastic community.

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