Friday, July 28, 2006
Maybe
Maybe God feels the same way, more or less, about the person with the cheesey Christian bumper sticker; the person who has a 30 minute "quiet time" every day at 4:30 on the dot; the person who raises their hands and wears a goofy smile while singing in church; the person who refuses to listen to Radiohead and Death Cab For Cutie because they aren't Christian bands; the person who pretends to speak in tongues because they don't understand why they can't but they want to fit in; the person who always ties everything back to "God is in control"; the person who spews Evangelical sound bites but can't quote scripture; the person who believes that the US is the "new Israel"; the person who reads the King James version of the Bible; the person who believes that there are literal treasures and streets of gold in heaven; the person who believes that their dead relatives are in heaven with God and can hear their prayers; the person who uses church as a way to increase their social standing; as he does about me with my bitterness, high-minded theological ideas often based more on what makes sense to me than scripture or meditation, and my self-righteous emergent theology. And maybe that's what this is really all about.
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Yeah, probably. But does that mean what we should be the former rather than the latter? Probably not. One thing is for certain: God is in control. Oh, and God is good. Oh, and respond to my comment on your "Monday Morning" post.
then again, maybe not and they're all going to hell. Or maybe the maybe is that they are already there...
What the hell is self-righteous emergent theology (SRET)?
I guess philosophy would have been more accurate than theology. But I'm talking about this idea associated with the emergent/post-modern church that goes something like this: we say that we don't want to be just another denomination, but rather we want to get past denominations. We say that we are not against other ways of doing things, we are just different. One is not right and the other wrong. But in reality we think that what we're doing is better than everyone else just like everyone else. And we think we're really great for doing it. I'm just talking about this whole pretentiousness that my perception of the emergent church carries with it right now. I think J.Morgan agrees.
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