For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
~1 Peter 3:18
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[brazenly pinging particular loved ones specifically selected for this pontification]
Amen! Amen! Amen!
Ahhhhh . . . but dear Sister ...
As any Jewish religious leader of 2,000 years or 3,000 years ago could have told you . . .
THERE'S NO MONEY IN THAT.
There's no industrial strength edifice building in that.
There's no industrial strength mass manipulation in that.
There's no lavish political power mongering in that.
There's no fattened bureaucracy for all and sundry uses, in that.
There's no vain glory, in that.
There's no intimacy with endless encyclicals with that.
There's no kowtowing to cold, encrusted, fossilized traditions with that.
There's no dead, dry, hollow, useless rituals in behalf of hundreds of robbers of God's Glory in that.
There's no mansions of cards methodically constructed to hundreds of foci of adoration, veneration and closet worship in all that--the focus is GOD ALONE in that.
There's only Christ and Him Crucified, in that. There's only Glory to God, in that. There's only intimacy with God, in that.
I like your post very much. Thank you for pinging me to it.