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Published on Leave a comment on God is a Haggler

Genesis 18:20-33

God is a Haggler.  He wants us to haggle.

What do we feel about that?

Here's a website offering to take the cringe factor out of your financial exchanges.  Instead of negotiating with a real, live human being, you can simply click a button in the privacy of our own home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PfggfGIRP4

Are you from a haggling culture?

I wonder whether the way we shop and the way we pray are linked.  I'm used to fixed prices, no negotiations, no back and forth, no give and take, in and out in 18 seconds, the less chat the better.  And my prayers?  Are they just as clean and clinical?  Do I know what it is to haggle with God?

Here's audio from a 10 minute talk for our prayer meeting last night.

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Published on Leave a comment on The strange new world of the bible

What do you see when you look up?

This?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0lxbzgwW7I

or this:

ht Mark Meynell

A theological revolution occured early last century when Karl Barth turned from his liberal protestant heritage to jump with both feet into "the strange new world of the bible" (the title of an early book of his).

Have you jumped in, or only dipped your toe?  It's a very hard thing to do.

It's so hard, you might just need Mike Reeves, Michael Ward and CS Lewis as guides.  So if you haven't listened to this brilliant podcast - do so forthwith.

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Published on 52 Comments on T4G Cribs

What's all this T4G Cribs nonsense?  There's a growing number of these videos.  Just watch the first minute of this one and you'll get the idea:

I'm saying nothing about the men featured.  I am questioning the pedestal on which they're being placed.

I mean the opening credits are a massive turn-off for me.  Am I misplacing my angst here or are these preachers being set up like rock stars?

And the whole series of "come see my study" seems designed to make 20-something hot-prots salivate with envy.  It's aspirational TV.  And it's majorly unbalanced.  We do not need a whole generation of young evangelicals aspiring to this. Where are Dever's congregation members who work hard at their jobs, share the gospel with workmates, teach and pastor their homegroups and serve in countless unseen ways?  Where's their video?  Where are those who pour out their lives for their families and friends in the name of Jesus?  Where's their video?  What are we holding out to people as the epitome of Christian superstardom?

I don't need to see Mark Dever's study.  If I were in his congregation I might want to "consider the outcome of his way of life and imitate his faith" (Heb 13:7).  But the T4G cameras do not need to show us where the magic happens.

This is not where the magic happens.

Am I being unfair here?

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