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<blockquote data-quote="ViaCrucis" data-source="post: 76237295" data-attributes="member: 293637"><p>Jesus alone carries His cross, the literal one He took to Golgotha to be crucified on. As followers, disciples, of this same Jesus our own lives of discipleship will mean we each have our own cross to carry. We can call this the cross of discipleship, it's the reality that in this world we are going to have troubles. </p><p></p><p>What shape or form or circumstances will be our cross is going to be different for every person. Nobody is the same, everyone has their own life that is unique to themselves. Following Jesus, day to day, navigating the world, that's what discipleship means.</p><p></p><p>In the Lutheran tradition we are reminded that "this life is a cross". This life is not a bed of flower petals, it's a cross. The Christian life is not about having our "best life now" as some less-reputable clergy have attempted to say. This life is about living in the trenches of ordinary human life, loving and serving our neighbor, to be what Jesus called salt and light, a city shining on a hill. To a be a people who are remarkable for their unremarkability, an ordinary human life of caring for one another and for the least of these in our midst.</p><p></p><p>That the Christian life consists in two things: Life before God through faith, and life before our fellow man and the whole world by love. In a sense these two things could be seen as the vertical dimension (Coram Deo, us before God) and the horizontal dimension (Coram Mundus, us before the world)--that is the life of the Christian, faith and love. The cross is carried because faith and love are <em>hard</em>. Jesus says that His way is difficult, it's easy to live for ourselves, it is much more difficult to live in, with, and for one another.</p><p></p><p>-CryptoLutheran</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ViaCrucis, post: 76237295, member: 293637"] Jesus alone carries His cross, the literal one He took to Golgotha to be crucified on. As followers, disciples, of this same Jesus our own lives of discipleship will mean we each have our own cross to carry. We can call this the cross of discipleship, it's the reality that in this world we are going to have troubles. What shape or form or circumstances will be our cross is going to be different for every person. Nobody is the same, everyone has their own life that is unique to themselves. Following Jesus, day to day, navigating the world, that's what discipleship means. In the Lutheran tradition we are reminded that "this life is a cross". This life is not a bed of flower petals, it's a cross. The Christian life is not about having our "best life now" as some less-reputable clergy have attempted to say. This life is about living in the trenches of ordinary human life, loving and serving our neighbor, to be what Jesus called salt and light, a city shining on a hill. To a be a people who are remarkable for their unremarkability, an ordinary human life of caring for one another and for the least of these in our midst. That the Christian life consists in two things: Life before God through faith, and life before our fellow man and the whole world by love. In a sense these two things could be seen as the vertical dimension (Coram Deo, us before God) and the horizontal dimension (Coram Mundus, us before the world)--that is the life of the Christian, faith and love. The cross is carried because faith and love are [I]hard[/I]. Jesus says that His way is difficult, it's easy to live for ourselves, it is much more difficult to live in, with, and for one another. -CryptoLutheran [/QUOTE]
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