Comments on: Misfits and champions https://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20111030_misfits_and_champions.html One Christian's view of postmodern life. Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:04:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: John Clements https://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20111030_misfits_and_champions.html#comment-1949 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 06:20:48 +0000 http://144.24.24.144/contents/uncategorized/20111030_misfits_and_champions.html#comment-1949 Super post, Charlie.

This reminds me of what I’ve always known, but occasionally undervalued: I’m chosen by him, to partner with him in his work. Nothing else matters. Being passed over by others, being undervalued in comparison to the perceived ‘big hitters’ of the Christian ministry or blogosphere… It doesn’t matter if he is pleased with my work.

Best wishes, as ever, from autumnal Wales, where I’m awake in the very early hours of the night, grappling with issues to do with vocation and completing my end-of-year paper!

John

]]> By: Bruce https://www.anotherthink.com/contents/essays_on_faith/20111030_misfits_and_champions.html#comment-1948 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:32:02 +0000 http://144.24.24.144/contents/uncategorized/20111030_misfits_and_champions.html#comment-1948 You have spoken truth again, Charlie. And on this topic, I like what I find in Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Book III, chapter 50, at the end: “How is a man better for being thought greater by men? … For, as the humble St. Francis says, whatever anyone is in Your sight, that he is and nothing more.” And I always like to add, “…and nothing less.”

I’m only afraid that we will never learn, that we will continue to follow our own fallible judgment, even where we have no business judging at all, and that we will continue to choose the wrong people to follow, simply because we so quickly forget about our own weaknesses and God’s greatness.

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