Mountains, Foothills, and Plains


Photo by Michael Buehler


MEMORIAL OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
 


I HAVE
 many Protestant readers. One of them wrote me regarding the recent article My Sheep Will Know My Voice in the Storm, and asked:

Where does this leave me as a Protestant?

 

AN ANALOGY 

Jesus said He would build His Church on “rock”—that is, Peter—or in Christ’s Aramaic language: “Cephas”, which means “rock”. So, think of the Church then as a Mountain.

Foothills precede a mountain, and so I think of them as “Baptism”. One passes through the Foothills to reach the Mountain.

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