6/9 Beatitudes

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Posted by quequel on July 05, 2003 at 23:11:55:

OKAY! I didn't realize it had been so long. I've been a little sidetracked this past month, and haven't looked at the message board even once. You guys ROCK! You're so completely cool! In reading the last month's worth of postings, I came across several that I had to put into my collection. There was one in particular that I wanted to respond to. Rob talked about the Beatitudes. I have a copy at work, just to remind me. In "The Jesus I Never Knew," Philip Yancey included a piece from Monika Hellwig, from "Tracing the Spirit" by James Hug. (I guess it went through a lot of places before I got ahold of it).
1. The poor know they are in urgent need of redemption.
2. The poor know not only their dependence on God and on powerful people, but also their interdependence on each other.
3. The poor rest their security not on things but on people.
4. The poor have no exaggerated sense of their own importance, and no exaggerated need for privacy.
5. The poor expect little from competition and much from cooperation.
6. The poor can distinguish between necessities and luxuries.
7. The poor can wait because they have acquired a kind of dogged patience born of dependence.
8. The fears of the poor are more realistic and less exaggerted, because they already know that one can survive great suffering and want.
9. When the poor have the Gospel preached to them, it sounds like good news and not like a threat or a scolding.
10. The poor can respond to the call of the Gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

Also, a quote that Yancey used from Tolstoy, "If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way home because I am staggering from side to side?"

Thanks, you guys, for being nice to my brother-in-law Michael, even though he came to church with a 32-ounce mug of beer in the car. I haven't gotten him to church since PU, but he really liked you all. Pray that the seed will grow.

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: OKAY! I didn't realize it had been so long. I've been a little sidetracked this past month, and haven't looked at the message board even once. You guys ROCK! You're so completely cool! In reading the last month's worth of postings, I came across several that I had to put into my collection. There was one in particular that I wanted to respond to. Rob talked about the Beatitudes. I have a copy at work, just to remind me. In "The Jesus I Never Knew," Philip Yancey included a piece from Monika Hellwig, from "Tracing the Spirit" by James Hug. (I guess it went through a lot of places before I got ahold of it). : 1. The poor know they are in urgent need of redemption. : 2. The poor know not only their dependence on God and on powerful people, but also their interdependence on each other. : 3. The poor rest their security not on things but on people. : 4. The poor have no exaggerated sense of their own importance, and no exaggerated need for privacy. : 5. The poor expect little from competition and much from cooperation. : 6. The poor can distinguish between necessities and luxuries. : 7. The poor can wait because they have acquired a kind of dogged patience born of dependence. : 8. The fears of the poor are more realistic and less exaggerted, because they already know that one can survive great suffering and want. : 9. When the poor have the Gospel preached to them, it sounds like good news and not like a threat or a scolding. : 10. The poor can respond to the call of the Gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything. : Also, a quote that Yancey used from Tolstoy, "If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way home because I am staggering from side to side?" : Thanks, you guys, for being nice to my brother-in-law Michael, even though he came to church with a 32-ounce mug of beer in the car. I haven't gotten him to church since PU, but he really liked you all. Pray that the seed will grow.

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