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“Hauerwas said American Christians are “more American than we are Christian.” In a Duke Magazine cover story, Hauerwas says the current identification of God and country is very troubling.
“Let me be as clear as I can be, the God of ‘God and country’ is not the God of Jesus Christ,” he said. “Yet this is not a development that began with Sept. 11. One of the issues before American Christianity is whether the God we worship is the God of Jesus Christ.
“American Christians simply lack the discipline necessary to discover how being Christian might make them different.”
While the resurrection story, being retold this week, is one of triumph for the Christian, Hauerwas doesn’t want people to forget allegiance to Jesus also includes being “united with him in his death.”
Hauerwas understands that true Christian pacifism may carry a heavy price.
“Christians must be ready to die, indeed have their children die, rather than betray the Gospel. … Christians are not called to be heroes. We are called to be holy.”
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