Yes Twitter I did retweet it before I finished reading. I trust @peternlimberg, @fullydavid and @roderickhare enough to pass along something after a first skim... https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/becoming-a-live-player-20ae640fa696
It does sort of remind me though of how the world saving and the soul saving have always been deeply entwined. Save your own soul at the expense of the world? You're a selfish sinner. Save the world at the expense of your soul? Noble, but we want be around to participate and enjoy the rescued world.
It reminds me of Luther's conversion. We are a bit cloyed by EVERY SINGLE MOVIE being about "the end of the world" but that's what an "archetypal" story is. Luther had a crisis but his journey was brimming with meaning.
And what better could he do than take the cowl? Men believed the end of the world already had been postponed for the sake of the Cistercian monks. Christ had just “bidden the angel blow trumpet for the Last Judgment, when the Mother of Mercy fell at the feet of her Son and besought Him to spare awhile, ‘at least for my friends of the Cistercian Order, that they may prepare themselves.’ ” The very devils complained of St. Benedict as a robber who had stolen souls out of their hands. He who died in the cowl would receive preferential treatment in heaven because of his habit.
Bainton, Roland. Here I Stand – A Life Of Martin Luther (Kindle Locations 379-383). Read Books Ltd.. Kindle Edition.
It can't be just about me, it has to be about everything. But where do I and everything intersect meaningfully and open-endedly? "God" is of course the historical term we're looking for. But the moment you domesticate Him you slip back into a meaning crisis.
You want both to be the hero, AND you want to be the damsel for which the Hero moves heaven and earth for love. It's a difficult story to construct, good thing it's already been done.
Now if it's "just a story" that's exciting but ultimately disappointing and unsatisfying. We want to dress up, enact, re-create, anticipate, long, and expect. Every moment of our life in the saeculum must find its place in it while reaching beyond it.
Where else can I find this but in Christ? I am disciple and bride. I am lover and beloved. I am child and midwife. I am always on the verge of being lost but never out of reach of His grip. I understand why people think it too good to be true.