Mystic Monday: Chuck Smith [1927-2013] and The Jesus Movement

"God often goes to the gutter to find the recipient for His grace. He lifts him out, washes him and transforms him - making him into a child of God fit for His kingdom. That is God’s grace." - Smith

(The above and all quotes below are taken from Chuck Smith’s collected sermons.)

I attended my diocese’s annual convention this weekend. Even though I’m retired, it is still canonically required for me to attend. I usually find these moribund affairs from which I mentally dissociate shortly upon arrival.

Perhaps to be a retiree allows one to see with new …