COMFORTABLE DISCIPLES
Soren Kierkegaard was an influential Danish philosopher and a tireless critic of the corrupt state church. In one of his pieces, he wrote: I went into church and sat on the velvet pew. I watched as the sun came shining through the stained glass windows. The minister, dressed in a velvet robe, opened the golden gilded Bible, marked it with a silk bookmark and said, “If any man will be my disciple,” said Jesus, “let him deny himself, take up his cross, sell what he has, give it to the poor, and follow me.” Have you sacrificed anything of late, solely for the purpose of drawing closer to Jesus Christ.
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