What is Christ Urging Us to Jettison?
We will need spiritual disciplines that will help us recognize what are the things from the past that Christ is urging us to sustain and deepen, and what are the things from the past that Christ is urging us to let die or jettison. We will need spiritual disciplines that will help us recognize what are the changes Christ is urging us to adopt under the challenge of the future, what are the innovations and unprecedented experiments Christ is spurring us on to. You are perfectly familiar with the polarizing voices in contemporary Christianity that scream at each other across a great divide. One chorus at the right yells that the Church is going to hell in a hand basket, that changes and innovations must stop, that salvation is through preservation of the faith and of the hallowed forms we have inherited. The opposite chorus screams that institutional religion is doomed, that there is little to be salvaged from the traditions of the past, and contemporary voices outside the Church are the
