Your Faith Journey - Finding God Through Words, Song And Praise

Last week, I read an interesting article by David French entitled Another Pop-Culture Christian Loses His Faith.  In the article, French writes: As our culture changes, secularizes, and grows less tolerant of Christian orthodoxy, I’m noticing a pattern in many of the people who fall away:  They’re retreating from faith not because they’re ignorant of its key tenets and lack the necessary intellectual, theological depth but rather because the adversity of adherence to increasingly counter-cultural doctrine grows too great.   Friends, I must be honest, the gospel of Jesus Christ is increasingly counter-cultural, and it takes courage to faithfully follow Jesus in our culture. Jesus addresses this in our gospel reading today as he talks about discipleship.  Quite frankly, today’s gospel reading is one of those passages that causes clergy to cringe when they read it and then have to say, “The gospel good news of our Lord.”  It would be so easy to gloss over this reading and say Jesus really did not mean what he is