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Hell Is Other People

07/25/08

Permalink 04:37:16 am, by dissidens Email , 312 words, 290 views   English (US)
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Hell Is Other People

Sparing no effort in keeping you twisting in the wind with every gaudy religious trinket, we direct your attention to this.

It's called Movemental Christianity, and it has an "outline". Some would just call it a list, others would call it a mere ring of ovals, but it is very pretty. If you happen to have any smart pills lying around, now would be an excellent time to polish off the entire bottle.

There will be ten elements, maybe more.

  • Prayer will "be a conviction that establishes its priority".
  • To be movemental will require that you show intentionality.
  • Change will cost you: you will have to move from "a place of being static" to a body in action.
  • Movements do not occur through large things. They occur through small units that are readily reproducible.
  • You should also "hold firm and passionate positions on biblical views."
  • Movements will look like, and be owned by, ordinary people in their setting.
  • Movements only occur when the disempowered are given the freedom, and then take up the responsibility, to lead.
  • Movemental Christianity requires charity to maintain our firmly held convictions while rejoicing for and speaking well about those with whom we differ but are being greatly blessed by God.
  • More frequently, non-scalable structures, will actually hinder the movement. These structures become bottlenecks rather than catalysts.
  • Movemental Christianity will practice wholistic ministry much in the way of Jesus. Current movements and historical awakenings are and were accompanied by societal transformation.

(It's just a first guess, but I think Dr. Stetzer means holistic.)

Sartre once wrote, "l'enfer, c'est les autres". J-P. S. said several highly unreliable things and that was one of them, but this perception does cause me to wonder: What if A. W. Tozer had to spend an eternity sharing a couch with Dr. Ed Stetzer?

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1 Comment from: Unk [Visitor] Email
"To be movemental will require that you show intentionality"

It is like watching some cancer of the language.
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2 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

Language is the technology of thought.

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3 Comment from: Unk [Visitor] Email
It is like watching the technology of thought dismantled, bizarrely rearranged and put on display as modern art.
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4 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email
There was a time that men like this were given a broom and assigned a street. Now they are hired as church growth consultants. I can’t stress this enough, this is why we study church history. We were warned about this kind of thing back before it looked so preposterous.

“Movemental Christianity Presentation”.

Ugly neologisms, buzzwords arranged maniacally, illiterates parsing culture, and a willing audience. No wonder people are gaga over house churches.
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5 Comment from: - the entity formerly known as MAS [Member] Email
Ironically, garbage like this tends to leave people in "a place of being static" while they ooh and aah at a silly list of they don't know what.

It makes me sick to my stomach that I used to eat this kind of crap. "Trinket Religion" is a fitting epithet; a Christianity with no mention of Christ except as a sort of tagline plastered on at the end, can have no worth and is as good as blasphemous.
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6 Comment from: chris [Visitor] Email
Point number two sounds like a helpful reminder poorly rendered in English on a Japanese laxitive bottle.
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7 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email
the entity:

Not only no Christ; no consolation, no Christian hope, no pursuit of the holy, no fellowship of suffering…. What we forget is that the problem is not Stetzer, Garlock and Pagitt, it is their substitutes for these proper Christian desires.

A culture is a shared set of transcendentals, a common metaphysical dream.

People who have no culture don’t know this. That’s why, across the entire spectrum of modern Christianity, we get this stuff pawned off on us.


chris:

During my seminary years I worked summers in a machine shop. We got a new CNC mill; it was an Ooya and it came with an Ooya manual, the reading of which provided us many hilarious lunch hours.
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