{"id":4925,"date":"2016-09-27T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T23:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/roadsfromemmaus\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2016-09-27T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T23:02:50","slug":"christianity-not-appealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/2016\/09\/27\/christianity-not-appealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Christianity is Not Appealing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crucifixion\"<\/p>\n

Sunday after the Elevation of the Cross, September 18, 2016
\nGalatians 2:16-20; Mark 8:34-9:1
\nRev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick<\/i><\/p>\n

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.<\/p>\n

I have been crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me. (Gal. 2:20)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I<\/span>n this passage from St. Paul that we read today, he says something pretty shocking. And it\u2019s something that is really unpopular in our world today. What is it? He says that he doesn\u2019t live any more, that Christ<\/i> lives in him.<\/p>\n

Why is this shocking? Why is it unpopular today?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because so much in our culture is pointing in a completely different direction. I am constantly being taught that how I live is about my<\/i> life, my<\/i> happiness, my<\/i> way of doing things. This isn\u2019t just people being mean, either\u2014this is the \u201cgood advice\u201d of our age. Go find your dream. Go live your life. Go do what makes you happy. Go listen to your heart.<\/p>\n

But Paul doesn\u2019t even bother to argue with that, because it\u2019s not even admissible in the Christianity that he knows. The idea that life is about fulfilling all your dreams or following your heart doesn\u2019t appear anywhere in his theology. It doesn\u2019t appear in the theology of any of the Apostles. And nothing like that ever comes out of Jesus\u2019 mouth, either.<\/p>\n

I know that might be offensive to point out, but it\u2019s simply true. If you can find me a passage somewhere in the Bible or somewhere in the Church Fathers or somewhere in the liturgical services that says that your life is about your happiness and your desires, then I will certainly change my mind. But I\u2019ve been reading all of that for years now and haven\u2019t come across it anywhere. Making your life about your own desires and dreams has nothing to do with Christianity. That\u2019s why Paul doesn\u2019t even argue with it\u2014there\u2019s no basis in the Christian revelation for that idea. There\u2019s nothing to debate.<\/p>\n

So what does<\/i> Paul say? He starts out this verse, Galatians 2:20, by saying, \u201cI have been crucified with Christ.\u201d In other words, he\u2019s dead. His life, his dreams, his desires are now over. He is dead to the world. There is no turning back. Paul has been crucified. Where are all his big dreams now? He\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n

Yet keep going. What does he say next? \u201cNevertheless, I live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The spiritual crucifixion that Paul talks about is not all there is. He\u2019s not merely<\/i> dead. \u201cNevertheless, I live,\u201d he says. But he just said he was dead! What can this mean?<\/p>\n

He goes on: \u201cnevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.\u201d So he\u2019s alive, but it\u2019s not he<\/i> who is doing the living. Rather, it is Christ Who lives in him.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s take it back to where we started again. What is life about for Paul? It\u2019s not about himself. It\u2019s not about his own desires, his own plans, his own dreams. Life for Paul is that he is dead to the world but that he lives because Christ<\/i> lives in him.<\/p>\n

So what does look like from here? He goes on: \u201cand the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God.\u201d So what does his life look like now? He is talking about life \u201cin the flesh.\u201d Paul is still alive and well in an earthly sense here. But that life, which is the same life as ours, is not lived for himself. It is lived \u201cby the faith of the Son of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul might say, \u201cThis life is not mine any more! This life now belongs to the Son of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

I know many of us may not have had a discernible conversion experience. Paul did, of course. He was knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus with a blinding light and the voice of Jesus from Heaven. But he didn\u2019t have<\/i> to be converted. He could<\/i> have decided that was just a hallucination or some kind of trick or a demon. But he did<\/i> convert. He did<\/i> choose to be crucified with Christ. He did<\/i> choose to be dead to the world.<\/p>\n

So even if you haven\u2019t had a big moment of conversion like Paul did, you can still imitate his choices. You can still be crucified with Christ. You can still be dead to the world. You can still make your life from here on out be \u201cby the faith of the Son of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

I cannot emphasize this point enough. So many times, we are tempted to look at Christianity as being something that needs to be made appealing to us. We want Christianity to \u201cfit in\u201d with our own desires and dreams, our own picture of what our life is about. Come, be a Christian because you like it. Come, be a Christian because it will be fulfilling for you. Come, be a Christian because it\u2019s a nice warm thing to be part of once in a while on some Sundays.<\/p>\n

Brothers and sisters, that is garbage. Christianity is not<\/i> appealing. It is not<\/i> the fulfillment of any earthly dream or desire or imagination. And it\u2019s certainly not just a convenient religious side dish in a banquet of ambitions and pleasures centered on other things.<\/p>\n

The only reason to be Christian is so that we can die and be resurrected. Of course, we will all die and be resurrected someday, no matter what. But if we choose to do what it takes to die in a spiritual sense now, to die to ourselves, to die to the world, to crucify our own desires and our own plans, then not only will we experience a foretaste of the resurrection in this life, but when we are resurrected at the end with all of mankind, then our resurrection will be beautiful and joyful, a resurrection of life rather than a resurrection of judgment and damnation.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why we\u2019re Christians. Christianity does not fit into our lives. It won\u2019t fit. It\u2019s too big. And it can\u2019t work that way, because being Christian means dying. Hopes and dreams and desires don\u2019t work very well when you\u2019re dead!<\/p>\n

But, if you will embrace this death to the world, then you will be resurrected. You will be able to say with Paul, \u201cnevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.\u201d And you will live. And you will find a very different kind of life, a life that is above anything that this world offers, no matter how noble or fulfilling the world\u2019s promises might seem to be.<\/p>\n

It is the paradox of Christian faith that, if we want to gain our life, then we have to lose it for Christ\u2019s sake. And if we try to keep our life for our own sake, then we will lose it. So if you want to live, then you have to die to yourself. And if you instead try to live to yourself, then you will die. So this life is about dying before we die so that, when we die, we don\u2019t have to die. Die now so that you can live.<\/p>\n

Paul is really clear here. If you\u2019re a Christian, your life is not your own. Even if all the things you desire are good or neutral in themselves, you still have to die to them. Now, He might give them back to you as He raises you up and changes you, but you can\u2019t count on that. You still have to die. Why? Because Jesus Christ, Who made you and Who Himself died for you, wants to live in you Himself. And that is a life that is infinitely better than anything we could imagine or arrange ourselves.<\/p>\n

Christianity is not about self-fulfillment. It\u2019s about self-denial. It\u2019s about setting aside whatever great ideas\u2014and they might be great ideas!\u2014that we have for ourselves and listening instead to what God has for us. I\u2019m not the boss. He\u2019s the boss. It\u2019s not about what I want. It\u2019s about what He wants. It\u2019s not about the life I have in mind. It\u2019s about the life that He wants to live within me. But I have to die.<\/p>\n

So why should we do this at all? Why should we accept this crucifixion, this self-denial, this death to the world and to our own desires? It\u2019s not on the basis of any appeal. Christianity is not appealing. It does not appeal to any human idea or preference. Christianity is simply the way to life. If you want to live, this is what you do. And what is it that would make us live \u201cby the faith of the Son of God\u201d? It is as Paul says: He \u201cloved me, and gave Himself for me.\u201d That\u2019s why. So we give ourselves to Him.<\/p>\n

To the crucified and risen Jesus Christ, with His eternal Father and His all-holy and good and life-giving Spirit, be all glory, honor and worship, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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