#revoice20

[sidebeeashley]

Today, Grant and Josh are talking with Pieter Valk from EQUIP about is talk at Revoice20 this year on theology during the Pastors and Leaders Seminar of the conference. We talk about different feedback he has gotten from his talk and how we can approach theology on sexuality that helps LGBT+ Christians to thrive in […]

This was an amazing episode! I personally found it to be a very deep conversation that went into not only side b theology but the conversation around it. Particularly why it can be a very sensitive subject for many. ----Also listen close in the beginning for a special announcement!------

[therightoflane]

The way of Christ

“After all is said and done, after all my peers are blamed for all the ways they never took care of me, after I have ascribed every wickedness and evil intention to everyone around me, and after I have attributed every malady and infliction of the heart to my very soul, all that is left is a shriveled up, isolated body that still is in pain with no one around to care about me. 

This is the natural end of a world of violence which eschews vulnerability and flees from pain.”

--- Taylor Zimmerman, Revoice 2020

Beautiful sentence structure aside, this one sentence captures so much of the ugliness of my own internal world. In light of this violent reality, Taylor exhorts us to embrace the pain inflicted upon us, but not out of a sense of masochism. To embrace pain is to fully acknowledge it as evil. To embrace pain is to learn from Christ. 

It is not fair but it is the way of Christ.