Saturday, March 16, 2013
"But Bonhoeffer who taught that "the cross is laid on every Christian" also taught that there are different kinds of dying. Or as the church traditionally put it, there are three kinds of martyrdom - red martyrdom, by blood; green martyrdom, by the exercise of the spiritual disciplines of abstinence, such as fasting; and white martyrdom, by abandoning everything for the love of God. Discipleship therefore means a "white funeral", the funeral of our own independence.
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"If Jesus is willing to be in us, and to let us show him to the world, it's a small thing that we should endure being fools for Christ's sake, and be shown up by the part we have to play."
Austin Farrer
The Calling, Os Guinness
11:01 AM
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