Martyr’s?
I think recently I realized, on my own and with the help of others, that I might have a bit of a martyr complex. Now this has traditionally been understood as someone who seeks out events and circumstances hence provoking persecution, torture, misunderstanding, and the like. But I am beginning to wonder if those aforementioned things actually should/are the norm in the sense that they are (to a degree) the appropriate response to the Gospel at times. Maybe I don’t have to seek it out, maybe it should (If I am obediently serving the interests of Christ at all times) seek me out.
What then is the difference between “hard living” as is so quickly shirked as our right as prospering Americans and rightful suffering as Christians who happen to live in America? What is a proper definition of entitlement from a Christian perspective? As my friend Bob always talks about, Where are the people who live not as a function of their income but radically different due to the stringent demands of the Gospel?
Originally martyr simply meant witness, only later did that include witness by dying. We are all dying. Does the question then become to what or whom are we witnessing? If so shouldn’t every Christian be a martyr? What’s so complex about that?
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