"I don't know about you, but I think one of my problems is that I thought you could be a preacher and be nice."–Bishop William H. Willimon, speaking of the way Jesus challenges the church as a body and Christians as individuals, and of the duty of preachers to truthfully pass those challenges onto the congregation in a podcast titled
"Jesus is Tough on the Church."
I think this is a real issue for the church in our day. We have substituted "niceness" for the challenging, sometimes difficult, sometimes harsh, but always liberating and life giving gospel of Jesus Christ.
If you want to listen to the whole thing, it can be found on this page.
Link: http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/5824/
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