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Cheap Healing, Exploitable Grace
In the Evangelical faith I grew up in, healing is the cheapest thing in the world. Just pray, forgive, give it to God, and now you’re angry is gone, your pain is gone, we can all move on and stop talking about it.
The utter scam of it all is how easy it is to perpetuate abuse within the walls of a lot of Evangelical churches. Because healing is cheap, and grace the most exploitable resource in the pews, and sin, the great equalizer, the thing that makes every Christian see themselves as on par with rapists and murderers, creates a moral logic of, if I am one of them, I want none of us held accountable. A faith that crafts an identify with cruelty, and a Jesus that offers a way out from ever feeling the weight of what that means.
And truth, that thing supposedly valued highly by God and the church, can also be known as “disunity,” or “hurting the name of Christ,” or “making us look bad in front of the world.”
How beautifully exploitable, how easy, the wolf doesn’t even need sheep’s clothing because the sheep all see themselves as wolves, but forgiven, freed from the moral consequences of what that means, they then love the wolves; wolves that break, and devour, and destroy because healing is cheap, because we’re not perfect, just forgiven, and a cheap God can fix every smashed and destroyed thing so there are no consequences, there is no such thing as having blood on your hands, God took that blood, so destroy, smash, devour; healing is cheap and then the healed are required to silence their tongues of dissent.
It is so perfectly, perfectly corrupt, this system of destruction fueled by self-interest and moral cowardice, you’d almost believe that maybe it was intelligently designed, maybe there is some perfect God crafting such a perfectly grotesque system. Almost. If it wasn’t so boringly common, if it wasn’t so obviously ordinary, a standard form of the ways the powerful craft systems that benefit them and harm others.
Al Mohler wrote his essay to exonerate himself and to protect his precious Conservative Resurgence. He failed on both counts.
Al Mohler wrote this impassioned essay on his site about how he just had NO IDEA Y’ALL about all the harassmentin’ goin’ on in the SBC around him ever since the takeover of the “Conservative Resurgence” that he engineered and orchestrated. I’ll show you what his two main goals were in writing it, and we’ll tackle the first of those today. Dude’s attempt to avoid blame has backfired so, so, so bad.
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#RaptureAnxiety
každou chvíli může přijít tzv. vytržení. ti, kdo jsou spaseni a zrovna nehřeší, se transportují do nebe, a zbytek zůstane v ohromným chaosu, na zemi, kde se odehrají všechny ty pečetě a souboj těhotné ženy s drakem a nevím co všechno, co mě učili v nedělní škole.
toxický učení, že v každým momentu tvýho života může přijít konec světa nebo můžeš umřít a pokud nemáš “vyřešený svoje vztahy“ nebo zrovna “hřešíš ve své mysli,“ milosrdný bůh tě šoupne rovnou do pekla, navždy, v utrpení.
The assumptions undergirding this phenomenon should give pause to anyone interested in faith leading to the practice of liberation and reconciliation.
As we move toward revitalizing Christianity Now, we think about all the ways in which theology, done from above, dismisses the work the church has to do in empowering and serving with congregations, rather than establishing the priest or pastor as the focal point for church or community. In this spirit, we look again at our last featured article: "The Domestication of American Christianity #EmptyThePews."
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The assumptions undergirding this phenomenon should give pause to anyone interested in faith leading to the practice of liberation and reconciliation.
Our featured article this month by Ben focuses on the #EmptyThePews movement:
Instead a change of consumption habits was called for: shifting from being a consumer of “bad” theology to being a consumer of “good” theology. Lay people were not encouraged to be thoughtful, passionate, creative theological agents themselves. Questions were not asked about the harmful effects of hierarchical models of church where pastors play an outsized roles in setting the agenda for congregations. There was no attempt to draw a connection between the consumerism churches encourage with the incredible difficulty of navigating social transformation. The message was more or less move your butt from a pew in a bad church to a pew in a good one. One would be hard pressed to show how this moralized sheep-swapping produces people of faith capable of participating in the coming of the Kingdom of God.
