Stephen Freeman Quote
How tragic it is that so much of the popular version of Christianity preaches a secularized message. It keeps God isolated, but popping in from time to time. It has lost the sense of the permeation of matter by divine Grace, the sacramental vision of reality; it insists that the Eucharist is just bread and wine, baptism is just a bath, and the world operates independently of God. It preaches a moralism of being good, leading only to obsession with guilt, and then, when that becomes too much, to shamelessness. It preaches that our salvation is acquired by a simple confession, and that it consists of going to heaven instead of going to hell—not a life lived in cooperation with divine grace, a body, mind, and heart sanctified by the Presence, which, having been born again by water and the Spirit in baptism, will continue to live forever, surviving death itself, to be resurrected. The
How tragic it is that so much of the popular version of Christianity preaches a secularized message. It keeps God isolated, but popping in from time to time. It has lost the sense of the permeation of matter by divine Grace, the sacramental vision of reality; it insists that the Eucharist is just bread and wine, baptism is just a bath, and the world operates independently of God. It preaches a moralism of being good, leading only to obsession with guilt, and then, when that becomes too much, to shamelessness. It preaches that our salvation is acquired by a simple confession, and that it consists of going to heaven instead of going to hell—not a life lived in cooperation with divine grace, a body, mind, and heart sanctified by the Presence, which, having been born again by water and the Spirit in baptism, will continue to live forever, surviving death itself, to be resurrected. The