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The Church stands between the two ways — communion and division, life and death, light and darkness. Our age must choose which path to follow.
The Didache — one of the earliest Christian texts besides the New Testament — begins with this: “There are two Ways, one of Life and one of Death, and there is a great difference between the two Ways.”
This line is deeply rooted in Scripture. Think of the words of Moses in Deuteronomy: “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses” (30:19). Or think of Matthew 25, where Christ speaks of the separation of the sheep and the goats — one blessed, the other cursed — at the end of time.
There are two ways. This idea has always shaped the lives of Christians. Are we children of light or children of darkness? Will we walk the road to salvation or the road to perdition? Do we belong to the City of God or the City of Man?
This question remains fundamentally the same today, but the Church needs a new language for pronouncing it, as much to itself as to the world. Why? First, our age has its own distinctive and disquieting contours. Trump, TikTok, COVID and the AI boom, whatever else they’ve done, have utterly redrawn our map of reality, and we find ourselves in a strange new landscape — a bedlam of fragmentation and polarization.
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The Didache — one of the earliest Christian texts besides the New Testament — begins with this: “There are two Ways, one of Life and one of Death, and there is a great difference between the two Ways.”
This line is deeply rooted in Scripture. Think of the words of Moses in Deuteronomy: “I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses” (30:19). Or think of Matthew 25, where Christ speaks of the separation of the sheep and the goats — one blessed, the other cursed — at the end of time.
There are two ways. This idea has always shaped the lives of Christians. Are we children of light or children of darkness? Will we walk the road to salvation or the road to perdition? Do we belong to the City of God or the City of Man?
This question remains fundamentally the same today, but the Church needs a new language for pronouncing it, as much to itself as to the world. Why? First, our age has its own distinctive and disquieting contours. Trump, TikTok, COVID and the AI boom, whatever else they’ve done, have utterly redrawn our map of reality, and we find ourselves in a strange new landscape — a bedlam of fragmentation and polarization.
Continued below.
Satan Divides, Christ Unites — Which Way Will We Choose?
COMMENTARY: The Church stands between the two ways — communion and division, life and death, light and darkness. Our age must choose which path to follow.
