Nonsense.
This guy does not understand the Gospel, nor does he represent the meaning of the cross. God did not tell him to do this because it is so contrary to sound teaching. Many Protestants are stuck in this errant world of self-created sacrifice, going forward, making a new commitment, or “hearing” God’s will. But, this guy needs a wheel? No wonder the world puzzles over what the Bible is getting at!
See, Mark. I get after them all.
This guy does not understand the Gospel, nor does he represent the meaning of the cross.
I would say that it's not possible, with just this article to say that this guy doesn't understand the Gospel of Salvation.
It's a newspaper article, written by someone else (a secular reporter) about a guy who has been walking around the world carrying a cross. That's all that you're reading here.
Now, I would say that he probably knows the Gospel of Salvation, per the Scriptures, as well as you and me and he probbably talks to quite a few people about exactly that -- as he stops and talks to people in various places, as he's carrying that cross around.
So, I wouldn't be so quick to criticize him in not knowing what the Gospel of Salvation is. I'm betting that he has probably talked to a wider variety of people about Salvation, according to the Scriptures, than you or I put together... :-)
“This guy does not understand the Gospel, nor does he represent the meaning of the cross. God did not tell him to do this because it is so contrary to sound teaching.”
Careful. Sometimes God gives a person a burden you wouldn’t think made sense:
“When the Lord first began speaking to Israel through Hosea, he said to him, “Go and marry a prostitute, so that some of her children will be conceived in prostitution. This will illustrate how Israel has acted like a prostitute by turning against the Lord and worshiping other gods.” - Hosea 1
Soon, to please Islamic peoples all crosses will be banned from all churches, from jewelry, from posters etc... Many places have banned them now. We are in the tyranny of the minority—they few are more important than the many—if you doubt this look again at what happened with health care.
Okay, I'll grant you that. Remember though, that the Reformed in Revolutionary American relentlessly persecuted Baptists, Quakers, Catholics and anybody else that they didn't like. Didn't make them right then either. :)
I remember reading about this guy years ago. A wheeled cross. Yeah, sure. However, you keep going on about self created sacrifice. Jesus fasted and so did the Jews of the day. Monasticism came from the imitation of the self sacrifice of Christ. Privation, when pursued with holy aims, can be very beneficial. Have you ever fasted, by the way; can you relate to the practice?