August 29, 2006

To Disturb

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

--Archbishop Michael Ramsey

4 comments:

mi familia said...

what do you think the archbishop means?

Joe Bumbulis said...

i understand this to be the church's duty to minister to the down and out, yet be prophetic to the comfortable and content.

what do you think?

mi familia said...

i guess what i should have asked was how do you think the bishop would prescribe disturbing the comfortable?
how would you?

Joe Bumbulis said...

justice, mercy, and hope in the kingdom of God.