discipleship
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Our anticipation of the Passion, for Holy Week, is intellectual and experiential. But what Jesus offers is a promise of participation.
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The experience of gathering, remembering, sharing in the liturgy is essential for us in Holy Week, not just the Sundays before and after.
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In seeking Jesus, we see people at their most invested. In clamoring for power and preserving status, we see us at our least.
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When Jesus starts talking about glorification, we forget all about discipleship — because following Jesus is hard.
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Being a Christian in the United States is super easy. We have churches on every corner and it is the dominant religion by far.
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Jesus offers Nicodemus a new way of seeing the world and a new life. Our attempts to make new life easy strip it of its true substance.