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A Dream Of Sorts

10/27/08

Permalink 01:45:47 am, by dissidens Email , 276 words, 578 views   English (US)
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A Dream Of Sorts

Here are some fatuous wishes from more "serious" people who have clearly lost touch with the Biblical message and the point of the Christian life. Shameless feelings of silliness and celebrations of imperfections do not sound like the hopes and dreams of any of the more recognized Apostles of the Church. Nor do they sound a great deal like the words of John the Baptist.

But they are the hopes and dreams of Evangelicalism, and here is the meticulous bafflegab they dare to offer us:

Soul Care offers practical wisdom on key spiritual practices that can become the platform for authentic spiritual growth--restoring life and health to your soul, releasing your God-given potential.

Of course they don't actually guarantee a release of your potential, but they do offer wisdom on practices that can become a platform for it. They can. It might happen.

"That I may know him and the wisdom on practices that can become a platform for growth...."


A World...

Where unhealthy shame is obsolete.
Where healthy shame has lost its sting.
Where we know we are of great worth when we accept the grace we do not deserve.
Where bad choices of the past do not determine our worth today or forfeit our hopes for tomorrow.
Where we dare to feel guilty where guilty we are, for we know our guilt can be forgiven.
Where we celebrate our imperfections.
Where we can feel silly without feeling shame.
Where grace gives us reason to be proud of ourselves.
Where the lightness of grace lifts the heaviness of shame.
Where joy is the whole point.

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1 Comment from: WLJ [Visitor] Email · http://www.cogitavi.wordpress.com
The sad thing to me is that if some of the members in my church were to run into any of this, they wouldn't have the discernment to recognize it for what it is. I don't even know what to say anymore when people tell me about the books they are reading.
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2 Comment from: Pseudonymous-of-Late [Visitor] Email
Looks like someone found Carl Rogers in the back of the fridge and re-heated him.
PermalinkPermalink 10/27/08 @ 19:33

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3 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email

Indeed.

Christianity has been grasping for relevance for so long it has become unrecognizable. Imagine John Bunyan or Pascal or Milton—or Hieronymus Bosch—reading that prayer: “where grace gives us reason to be proud of ourselves”.

Say whuh?
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4 Comment from: Pseudonymous-of-Late [Visitor] Email
Well, if you sing it enough, you just might start to believe it.
PermalinkPermalink 10/28/08 @ 19:40

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5 Comment from: dissidens [Member] Email
That’s very true.

It has been amply demonstrated that people will gladly sing nonsense if you set the offensive text to music. Entire hymnbooks have been published to prove this embarrassing principle.

People refuse to accept that what we say (and what we repeatedly and formally say) changes our belief. Even people who can recognize an inferior idea when it is shoved under their noses will say that “it’s just for kids” or “this was written by a dear old blind lady” and it is just mean-spirited to point out that it debases our thinking about God.

Not only does grace give us reason to be proud of ourselves, it also gives us reason to be smug in our disobedience.
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