Journey

The recognition that new experiences force us at times to revisit previous judgments is a natural development of…age. I think this is a reason for the development of the fashionable use of the term journey to describe the Christian life. This is not an entirely new development. In fact John Bunyan wrote the famous of devotional classics using the setting of a journey the Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan’s work continues to be instructive and illuminating to my Christian experience. And yet the way in which the term “journey” is employed raises for me some misgivings. My reservations come from the way this term seems to be used as a trump card to avoid or simply to dismiss dissenting judgments within the life of the Christian community. One need not consider a differing opinion if one simply relegates it to the circumstances of another’s journey.