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Ryan Junior Member Needs a Life! Posts: 78 Gender:	Sacrifice Mar 26^th, 2007, 5:28am I've been spending a lot of time reflecting on sacrifice this year during lent. This is about the best thing I've read so far.
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Tim Global Moderator Posts: 41 Gender:	Re: Sacrifice Reply #1 - Mar 28^th, 2007, 6:37pm Thanks Ryan. This is one of the better articles I've read lately- http://www.geezmagazine.org/Issue05/a-letter-to-progressive-christians-in-the-us a
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Reply #2 - Mar 29^th, 2007, 5:37am

That's a great article. I think its very true. Sojourners has taken a rather activist, offensive (the strategy, not the emotion) bent, which ironically coincided with Jeff Carr taking over as COO. Jeff, a member of my very own denomination, is a bit militant in his peace-making, if that makes any sense. He's a rabid fundraiser and well a rabid envelope-pusher. Not that these are bad things, but his personality is quite overwhelming. You can see it coming out in recent Sojourners ad campaigns and the fact that anyone with their email or physical address in the Sojo database is now bombarded with numerous mailings promoting the progressive agenda.

It's sad to me that what was, only two or three years ago, a very sound universal opposition voice has become very clearly a champion for the evangelical left. Obviously they haven't jumped into bed with the Democrats as brazenly as the religious right has with the Republicans, but it's getting awfully close.

A Christian understanding of politics really needs to fall more along the lines of Yoder's Politics of Jesus. Politics as a personal action, a way of life, rather than politics as the power-grabbing, self-indulgent rule of nations. I am grateful to Sojourners and other similar progressive groups for championing a more holistic approach to the issues of culture and society in our day. We Christian and I, as a Christian, need to hear these things. However, it seems the Christian left has now fallen into the same trap as the Christian right in advocating massive structural change from the top down.

It's regulating morality, even if your morality is one of inclusion. No one can be forced into anything against their will. If we're going to see the Kingdom of God come, even in some small way on Earth, it is going to be from the bottom up, from individual encounters with the love of God evidenced in caring, personal relationships outside the realms of power.

At first I didn't think that this whole track fit my initial post on sacrifice, but it seems more and more that sacrifice is the key to change. We sacrifice out will, our desires to those of God and in doing so we realize that the sacrifice of our selfishness, our desires for power and out perceived "right" to comfort is the only way that we can truly pass on the love of God that has been so graciously given to us.

That's the politics of sacrifice. Hey, maybe there's a book there. I could do so much good with the money from a best seller!

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Reply #3 - Nov 3^rd, 2008, 7:56pm

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Reply #5 - Feb 15^th, 2009, 9:50pm

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Reply #6 - Jun 30^th, 2009, 1:24am

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"Whatever love means." Was his reply.
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