Comments on Intentional Disciples: Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Sorry it has taken me so long to offer a comment o...

2008-10-06T07:16:00.000-06:00

Sorry it has taken me so long to offer a comment on this excellent post. The objections to conversion that you discuss sound a lot like the objections to recovery posed by alcoholics and addicts. Certainly, similar thoughts went through my head as I weighed the prospects of sobriety against what had been my status quo.

As I work to maintain my sobriety, I think that the 12 steps could serve as a model of a practical guide to repentance and conversion. Since the need for repentance is certainly more subtle and maybe less extensive than an addict's need to change, establishing a convincing call to change is still a substantial obstacle..

I want to be clear, though, that I'm not pushing AA here. Rather, the approach to getting answwers to the questions and objections that you pose might be informed by a 12-steps kind of approach.

Thanks.

I actually did a homily eight years ago in which I...

2008-10-03T20:37:00.000-06:00

I actually did a homily eight years ago in which I portrayed the campaign manager of Jesus. The homily was my end of a phone conversation with the candidate whose campaign I feared was going to tank because he was honest, or something like that. The local secular paper published it, I believe!

If only the real messiah were running for presiden...

2008-09-29T11:11:00.000-06:00

If only the real messiah were running for president!
Thanks for your reflection on conversion, I will share it with our parish's evangelization team so we can explore more ways to bring the message of hope and conversion that only Christ offers. Love the "personal Jesus" statue pic.