the task of the Church

The first and greatest task of the Church in our modern culture is just to be the Church.

Really be the Church in the fullness of all that this means.

We do not exist to prop up the claims of the state or the claims of the culture. We don’t exist in order to make the world a better place…

The modern challenge is the ancient challenge and that is to be an ancient Christian in the midst of a modern world : to live in union with God in small little and humble ways, moment by moment : loving : forgiving : lending : sharing and keeping Jesus’ commandments and it’s gonna work out. It’s gonna be fine.

That is what Pascha means. We can live like this because God has raised Jesus from the dead. I freely give you all things.

Christ is Risen.

Father Stephen Freeman excerpt taken from the video below. Watch it. It is worth your time.

Father Stephen Freeman : The Modern Challenge


no other basis

The life of repentance is a constant embracing of Christ’s Pascha. It is a giving of ourselves to what has been given to us. It is the rejection of every pretense that would erect a life on some other basis (as though there were another basis).

Father Stephen Freeman

Glory to God for All Things Blog

from the article “Faith, Doubt, Theology and Suspicion”