"Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time", Marcus Borg | Chapter Four

"The narrow way, the way less traveled, is the alternative wisdom of Jesus...  It is an invitation to a path that leads away from the life of conventional wisdom [the culturally reinforced wisdom of how to live the successful, affluent, or respected life based on standards set by society or religion] to a ... deepening relationship with the Sprit of God, not as a life of requirements and reward.
  
Jesus used imagery of the heart to speak of the need for an internal transformation...  What is needed is a new heart - an internal transformation brought about by a deep centering in God...  The narrow way as the path of internal transformation is a ... dying to the world of conventional wisdom as the center of one's security and identity and a dying to the self as the center of one's concern ... the ultimate letting go, and thus the opposite of grasping that marks the life of conventional wisdom."  
  
Marcus Borg, "Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time", excerpts from Chapter Four
  
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Where does the alternative wisdom of Jesus challenge our culture?  Our religion?  
     
CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY: WISDOM AND PRACTICE: CHURCH OF RECONCILIATION