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:

  1. what do you think the archbishop means?

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  2. 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?

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

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

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