Archbishop Chaput, New Life in Christ: What it looks like, what it demands

A version of this was published in First Things. (Via Amy Welborn)

I want to quote something Franz wrote in a letter to his godson. He wrote: “I can say from my own experience how painful life often is when one lives as a halfway Christian. It is more like vegetating than living.” Believers today are relentlessly tempted to accept a halfway Christianity, to lead a “double life”—to be one person when we’re in church or at prayer and somebody different when we’re with our friends or family, or at work, or when we talk about politics.