BreakPoint’s Commentary on "Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith"
August 30, 2007
THEPOINT, a blog of BreakPoint, has two post regarding Time Magazines article “Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith”
Its no surprise that commentators at BreakPoint find no issues regarding Mother Teresa’s faith.
Jason Bruce, in his post, The Crisis of Mother Teresa, quotes Mother Teresa where she says “You don’t have to be a saint to do good? you need willing hands not clean ones? If we wait for our souls to be totally clean, our time on earth will be swept away”
To that I would like to remind Mr. Bruce that all born again Christians are saints.
Jason ends his piece with this, “What an excellent example of faith in the trustworthiness of God.”
Gina Dalfonzo, in her post, Dark night of the soul, writes … “Anyway, getting back to Mother Teresa’s spiritual crisis, another commenter, Carter Johnson, goes so far as to suggest that maybe her feelings of emptiness meant that she was following the wrong Gospel.”
Dalfonzo doesn’t seem to even give a second thought to the suggestion that Mother Teresa might not have know the true God. Dalfonzo finally points us to none other than Chuck Colson himself and his piece, A Suffering Servant.
Colson says … The very essence of faith, you see, is believing even in the absence of evidence. And it is the only way we can know Christ. We can conclude rationally that God exists, that His Word is true, and that He has revealed Himself. But without that leap of faith, we will never know God personally or accept His will in Christ.
So what do the letters of Mother Teresa reveal? For one, they reveal the true cost of discipleship. To follow Christ is to embrace suffering and the Cross. And, at times, to say with Jesus, ?My God, my God, why did you abandon me??
This is an interesting description of faith in light of scripture:
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
You can find several post regarding Colson’s ecumenical tendencies here.
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September 12th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
My God, My God, why have you abandoned me?
Oh, so Jesus must not have had “blessed assurance.”
Never mind. You people are hopeless.
October 10th, 2007 at 5:43 am
It seems the people on this site are innately confrontational and possess no real sense of the fellowship of Christ. Christ I’m sure did not admire the actions of the prostitutes and tax collectors among others, like say those who crucified him, (father forgive them for they know not what they do…) but he certainly was never cynical. Cynicism runs wildly throughout both the moderation and subscribers of this site when it comes to those who don’t particularly run parallel with whatever brand of Christianity this contingent adheres to. Instead of reading comments like, “pray for them” or “maintain hope for their change of heart”, all that is displayed is sanhedrinesque behavior that really benefits no one or nothing but the egoes and scholarly gratification of those who think they know it all. You people really do need to do some soul-searching.