Comments on: A Well-Storied Lent http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/ Telling the story of the story-bound God Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lent and the Master Story « Cross Talk ~ crux probat omnia http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/#comment-1103 Lent and the Master Story « Cross Talk ~ crux probat omnia Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:11:18 +0000 http://www.jrdkirk.com/?p=284#comment-1103 [...] A reflection inspired by the reading of Daniel Kirk’s thoughts on Lent. [...] [...] A reflection inspired by the reading of Daniel Kirk’s thoughts on Lent. [...]

]]> By: J. R. Daniel Kirk http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/#comment-1009 J. R. Daniel Kirk Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:39:08 +0000 http://www.jrdkirk.com/?p=284#comment-1009 In a sense, everything I blog about here falls somewhere into that practical application. "Don't go to court over your building" is an application. "Create communities of self-giving love rather than self-aggrandizement." "Pursue authenticity to who you're becoming in Christ, not to the old self, the flesh that wars against the cruciform Spirit of Christ." Conversion of the imagination is the means to living out a cruciform existence. I think... What sorts of grids do you run decisions through? Is "How do I give life to the person in front of me," high on the list? What about when qualified with, "even if it costs me (some aspect of) my own"? Maybe there's a reason I'm an academic. All of that sounds practical to me! In a sense, everything I blog about here falls somewhere into that practical application. “Don’t go to court over your building” is an application. “Create communities of self-giving love rather than self-aggrandizement.” “Pursue authenticity to who you’re becoming in Christ, not to the old self, the flesh that wars against the cruciform Spirit of Christ.”

Conversion of the imagination is the means to living out a cruciform existence. I think… What sorts of grids do you run decisions through? Is “How do I give life to the person in front of me,” high on the list? What about when qualified with, “even if it costs me (some aspect of) my own”?

Maybe there’s a reason I’m an academic. All of that sounds practical to me!

]]> By: Mark http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/#comment-887 Mark Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:47:20 +0000 http://www.jrdkirk.com/?p=284#comment-887 "For a people and nation glutted on excess, power, comfort, and glory, Lent can be a salutary reentry into the cruciform narrative of Christianity. We follow Jesus. And to follow Jesus means to walk the way of the cross." Bingo! I desperately need some kind of concrete practical on-the-ground aid to reinforce a cruciform narrative for me. Lent is such an ecclesial 'aid' and is a formative & helpful way for me with the wider Christian communion to pursue cross-shaped-ness not just in my(our) theological imagination, but in our embodied life together as the living communion of saints. your post is helpful toward that end. “For a people and nation glutted on excess, power, comfort, and glory, Lent can be a salutary reentry into the cruciform narrative of Christianity. We follow Jesus. And to follow Jesus means to walk the way of the cross.”

Bingo! I desperately need some kind of concrete practical on-the-ground aid to reinforce a cruciform narrative for me. Lent is such an ecclesial ‘aid’ and is a formative & helpful way for me with the wider Christian communion to pursue cross-shaped-ness not just in my(our) theological imagination, but in our embodied life together as the living communion of saints. your post is helpful toward that end.

]]> By: Mary Koepke Fields http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/#comment-876 Mary Koepke Fields Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:15:46 +0000 http://www.jrdkirk.com/?p=284#comment-876 Thanks for your honest and bold question, Nick.. I have the same one for my esteemed professor Dr. Kirk. Can you elaborate what it means for you personally? Respectfully submitted, Mary Fields Thanks for your honest and bold question, Nick.. I have the same one for my esteemed professor Dr. Kirk. Can you elaborate what it means for you personally?

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Fields

]]> By: Nick http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/#comment-858 Nick Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:03:13 +0000 http://www.jrdkirk.com/?p=284#comment-858 Daniel, I love this emphasis on the cruciform nature of genuine Christianity and how radically unobserved it is in American churches. Yet I have an honest question, if I can be so bold--how do you, as a fairly well off American with a great life, live this out? I don't mean to single you out--I want to ask this of myself and every other professing believer around me. But to be fair, I see a lot of big-picture narrative theology being done (and wonderfully done!) by guys like you and M. Gorman, but not necessarily a lot of fleshing it out in terms of what it actually looks like in concrete practice in our daily lives. Perhaps you could devote a post to this issue at some point? I would be absolutely fascinated to hear your thoughts on this practical issue. Thanks Daniel! Daniel, I love this emphasis on the cruciform nature of genuine Christianity and how radically unobserved it is in American churches.

Yet I have an honest question, if I can be so bold–how do you, as a fairly well off American with a great life, live this out? I don’t mean to single you out–I want to ask this of myself and every other professing believer around me. But to be fair, I see a lot of big-picture narrative theology being done (and wonderfully done!) by guys like you and M. Gorman, but not necessarily a lot of fleshing it out in terms of what it actually looks like in concrete practice in our daily lives.

Perhaps you could devote a post to this issue at some point? I would be absolutely fascinated to hear your thoughts on this practical issue. Thanks Daniel!

]]> By: Eric Gregory http://www.jrdkirk.com/2010/02/21/a-well-storied-lent/#comment-853 Eric Gregory Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:13:53 +0000 http://www.jrdkirk.com/?p=284#comment-853 Glad to hear it! And please, by all means, celebrate the Resurrection and all its feast-ly glory on Sundays. Some of us will still hold back the "Hallelujah/Alleluia!" so that the one we give on Easter morning has some additional punch to it, but as the Spirit leads, so may we all follow. Amen! Glad to hear it!

And please, by all means, celebrate the Resurrection and all its feast-ly glory on Sundays. Some of us will still hold back the “Hallelujah/Alleluia!” so that the one we give on Easter morning has some additional punch to it, but as the Spirit leads, so may we all follow.

Amen!

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