“Discipleship without Jesus Christ is choosing one’s own path. It could be an ideal path or a martyr’s path, but it is without promise. Jesus will reject it” – Bonhoeffer, Discipleship (59).
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Acts and Counterculture
{ March 30, 2011 @ 3:41 am } · { Community, Faith, General, Religion, Spiritual Formation, Theology }
{ Tags: Acts, Bible, Commentary, Jaroslav Pelikan, Theology } · { Leave a Comment }
Jaroslave Pelikan’s comments on Acts 16:25-34 in his commentary on Acts from Brazos Press – “Running throughout the narrative of the book of Acts is a polemic against the use of violence and coercion – in this case, the violence that the jailer wanted to perpetuate on himself” (188).
Pelikan gives us a much needed reminder of one of the very important meta-narratives in Scripture.