Resident Aliens

I just completed the first chapter of Resident Aliens by Hauerwas and Williamson.

For me, being able to digest this text really speaks to the quality of Christian education I have received at Malone. The book centers around this idea that Christians represents somewhat of a "colony" in mainstream culture.

Although we are called to reform culture, we will always feel the rub of the Gospel against competing, and sometimes more appealing philosophies.

I guess this is something I am coming to embrace, and to be proud of. Not in the sense that I am better than all the other un-saved savages (sarcasm), but in the sense that I feel like I am becoming more firmly rooted in the Christian worldview and starting to understand how Christian belief is very particular, and not always amenable to the life I would want to live if I simply listened to my culture or to the deception in my head.

I need to work on the idea of Christianity as "relationship" in addition to "worldview," however...headiness should not supersede friendship with God.