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Jim Grieme's avatar

It's easier to perform for an adoring crowd than before the crowds in the arena being chased by lions and men with swords. Grace, like prayer, is not something extended or accomplished by the proud. To perform and receive praise--and to do it for no other reason than to receive the praise--is tantamount to marginalization through humor; if you laugh at something you marginalize it. The monkey performing for the organ grinder is on a leash. Too many forget this.

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Dorsey Deaton's avatar

As an old classmate friend of your father, who has an M.Div and a Ph.D. in U. S. History from Emory, I have to agree with your tension. Perhaps the growing secularism and pseudo-science religion of the urban elites gives Christians the opportunity to experience First-Century dynamics. Soren Kierkegaard said, "The most difficult thing to do is to be a Christian in a land where everyone thinks they're christian." There's a tension between Grace and Truth.

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