The lessons on the discipleship had a sight of beautiful outcome of the preaching of the Gospel. Each of them also had something to tell about the quality of discipleship. But the Gospel also speaks that it will face with challenges and hostility. It is inevitable not because of a strange God, but because the Gospel sets all children of God free. All being righteous in the freedom of God is not a good news for many.
Though we are disciples, we do categorise people according to language, ethnicity, gender etc. We don't find anything strange in terming natives and outsiders, cursed and privileged, high cast and low cast, because Gospel has never been a story to be lived. Instead, Christianity was a title to be taken pride in. So, the Gospel becomes really an offence.
It is important to depart from the pompous Christianity and find the heart of the gospel in the cave of our heart like Benedict found in Subiaco. Entering into the cave is to find the freedom to take up the risk of the Gospel to face the objections. The altar the Gospel prescribes is the joy of the nearness of the kingdom among all peoples, rich and poor, natives and outsiders, cursed and the privileged.
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