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“The Church must be free to be poor in order to minister among the poor. The Church must trust the Gospel enough to come among the poor with nothing to offer the poor except the Gospel, except the power to discern and the courage to expose the Gospel as it is already mediated in the life of the poor…When the Church has the freedom itself to be poor among the poor, it will know how to use what riches it has. When the Church has that freedom, it will know also how to minister among the rich and powerful. When the Church has that freedom, it will be a missionary people again in all the world. When the Church has the freedom to go out into the world with merely the Gospel to offer the world, then it will know how to use whatever else it has–money and talent and buildings and tapestries and power in politics–as sacraments of its gift of its own life to the world, as tokens of the ministry of Christ.” -William Stringfellow (HT to Nate Spencer)

June 7, 2008

This is in the Triablogue comments. TUAD is a guy obsessed with me. Frank’s practically banned him at Centrui0n, which says something. But he’s decided to take the BBB comment thread and turn it into a discussion of how I caused my wife’s Catholicism.

Tirian observes: “We can’t control what other people do, but we do have great influence over our spouse. If a husband is spiritually stable and solidly orthodox (and leads his family consistently with his profession of faith), then such instances as a wife converting to Roman Catholicism would be rare.”

TUAD: “Tirian, do you think this passage might be applicable in the situation you described?

“But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.” (James 1:6-8)”

Tirian: Yes.

Our humble diagnoses are in agreement with Scripture.

PWinn- your theory looks better all the time.

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