Hoskyns: learning in the church

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
    Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866
Meditation:
    You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.’” So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.
    —Romans 14:10-12 (NIV)
Quotation:
    The Church is the place where we learn not how self-sufficient we are, but where we learn what sin really is. The Church is the place where the Pharisee learns to say with the Publican: Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.
    ... Sir Edwyn C. Hoskyns (1884-1937), We are the Pharisees, London: SPCK, 1960, p. 19 (see the book)
    See also Job 9:20; Ps. 106:6; Matt. 21:31-32; Luke 18:9-14; Rom. 14:10-12
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, let me never consider my sin “better” than someone else’s. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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