The Long Apprenticeship

Beginning September 16, we’re going to spend six or so weeks of Sundays thinking together about following Christ.  And our thinking shall lead to action.  Eugene Peterson says it well, I think: “It is not difficult in our world to get a person interested in the message of the gospel; it is terrifically difficult to sustain the interest.  In our kind of culture anything, even news about God can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap.  There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for the long apprenticeship in what earlier generations called holiness.”