I would have liked to see this reality show. Five men from secular lifestyles enter into a Benedictine monastery and follow the strict timetable of instruction, study, prayer, reflection and routine work duties. They include a producer of trailers for a sex chat line, a painter/decorator with a criminal past, a high-earning bachelor, PhD in Buddhism student, and a retired poet and teacher. If what these guys experienced changed their lives, what do you think would happen to a believer who entered into this lifestyle? Is it possible for Christians to rediscover this kind of life today? It seems to me that the emerging church is trying to bring monastic-like practices to the everyday Christian.
“…the restoration of the church will surely come only from a new type of monasticism which has nothing in common with the old but a complete lack of compromise in life lived in accordance with the Sermon on the Mount in the discipleship of Christ. I think it is time to gather people together to do this…” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
