Today launches Lent, with the traditional holiday of Ash Wednesday. Catholics and high church protestants gather to be reminded that “for dust you are and to dust you will return,”by having ashes imposed on their foreheads. For those of us who are not of a liturgical this is a confusing, odd and even overly religious tradition of man that distracts from the day-in, day-out following of Jesus. Mark Roberts tells his story of coming to understand the holiday over at Patheos:
To me, it was some Catholic holy day that I, as an evangelical Protestant, didn’t have to worry about, thanks be to God. In my view, all of “that religious stuff” detracted from what really mattered, which was having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. In my early evangelical years it never dawned on me that some of “the religious stuff” might actually enrich my faith in Christ.
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