Comments on: Sara Miles – The Work of Ordinary Saints http://somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/thoughts/misc/sara-miles-%e2%80%93-the-work-of-ordinary-saints/ stories worth talking about. Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: jdblundellhttp://somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/thoughts/misc/sara-miles-%e2%80%93-the-work-of-ordinary-saints/#comment-717 jdblundell Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:59:56 +0000 http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/?p=538#comment-717 Don't disagree with that at all. Don't disagree with that at all.

]]> By: Joehttp://somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/thoughts/misc/sara-miles-%e2%80%93-the-work-of-ordinary-saints/#comment-716 Joe Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:10:06 +0000 http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/?p=538#comment-716 Well, I'm no expert on these things, but it seems to me that people like watching other people 'doing' Christianity rather than actually doing it themselves - so I doubt that the class will ever be destroyed. So we may move away from paid professionals, but we're always going to have people who are a cut above the rest, wear special clothing and have special functions - until as Kierkegaard suggested, we close the churches.<br><br>My all time fav Kierkegaard quote is this one:<br><br>"In the maginficent cathedral the honorable and Right Reverend Geheime-General-Ober-Hof-Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: ‘God has chosen the base things of this world, and the things that are despised’ - and nobody laughs."<br><br>And this is the main problem in church - we take all the wrong things far too seriously. Well, I'm no expert on these things, but it seems to me that people like watching other people 'doing' Christianity rather than actually doing it themselves – so I doubt that the class will ever be destroyed. So we may move away from paid professionals, but we're always going to have people who are a cut above the rest, wear special clothing and have special functions – until as Kierkegaard suggested, we close the churches.

My all time fav Kierkegaard quote is this one:

“In the maginficent cathedral the honorable and Right Reverend Geheime-General-Ober-Hof-Pradikant, the elect favorite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: ‘God has chosen the base things of this world, and the things that are despised’ – and nobody laughs.”

And this is the main problem in church – we take all the wrong things far too seriously.

]]> By: jdblundellhttp://somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/thoughts/misc/sara-miles-%e2%80%93-the-work-of-ordinary-saints/#comment-715 jdblundell Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:35:51 +0000 http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/?p=538#comment-715 Good point Joe. I heard a real interesting interview last night on our local NPR station with Clark Strand, author of "How to Believe in God." He discussed how people are picking the pieces of religion that work for them now - vs accepting on whole religion as "gospel truth." He mentioned the priests and pastors being a very week point of traditional Christianity and that it will likely drastically change in the near future. <a href="http://www.wpr.org/book/090830a.cfm" rel="nofollow">http://www.wpr.org/book/090830a.cfm</a> Good point Joe. I heard a real interesting interview last night on our local NPR station with Clark Strand, author of “How to Believe in God.” He discussed how people are picking the pieces of religion that work for them now – vs accepting on whole religion as “gospel truth.” He mentioned the priests and pastors being a very week point of traditional Christianity and that it will likely drastically change in the near future. http://www.wpr.org/book/090830a.cfm

]]> By: Joehttp://somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/thoughts/misc/sara-miles-%e2%80%93-the-work-of-ordinary-saints/#comment-714 Joe Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:23:24 +0000 http://www.somethingbeautifulpodcast.com/?p=538#comment-714 Yeah, like that. I'm not fond of the notion that there are a special class of priests/pastors/ministers who are the 'professionals' and the rest of us who stand and watch in awe. As Chesterton said (I think) the problem is not too many priests in the church but too few. Yeah, like that. I'm not fond of the notion that there are a special class of priests/pastors/ministers who are the 'professionals' and the rest of us who stand and watch in awe. As Chesterton said (I think) the problem is not too many priests in the church but too few.

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