here is 6 days growth. my son said this morning, "your beard is pinching me!" i have received some comments regarding my last post which included an excerpt from Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird . The comments centered around Lamott's observations re: perfectionism being the voice of the oppressor, the Wesleyan theological term "Christian Perfection", and the United Methodist understanding that we are moving on to "perfection." i don't think that by sharing Lamott's observations i have called Wesley's theology into question or compromised my own understanding of "Christian Perfection." as i understand Wesley, his move towards "perfection", or the acquisition of "sanctification" (though Wesley seems to believe that this could be a fleeting acquisition at best) is a process or journey made by one through grace alone and that one who achieves "perfection" is not in the state permanently and therefore is
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Maybe this is why some reject the militant language of sections of Christianity. It is not our job to attack, but intentionally and actively resist.
One of my earliest intersections with Hauerwas's stuff was Community of Character, in which, among other things, he states that
"The primary social task of the church is to be the church."
Thanks to you, I now know that Stanley didn't develop this thought, but learned it from Yoder.