In Reply to: Re: Rebooting Deceivers Yet True posted by Giovanni on June 07, 2010 at 06:14:20:
What's interesting is that with the retelling of sacred history--as it's recorded in the Bible--the writers DO NOT leave out the ugly and despicable. The Message seems to be that no matter how low God's people sink, He never gives up on them. The Message also seems to be that repentance is necessary, a passport of citizenship in the Kingdom.
The reboot is not repentance. I'm questioning whether Family theology can actually support a biblical understanding of sin and repentance. I can see how the doctrine of "once saved, always saved" and unstated assumptions about the nature of spiritual anointings have lead Peter and Karen to a place where they can't imagine themselves as lost sheep, or even sheep for that matter.
I found this interesting spiritual writer (Bill Dahl) that talks about the importance of "sheepmanship." He's writing a book called: “Sheepmanship – The Flip-side of Leadership,” or “Placing Leadership in its’ Proper Perspective in the Pasture.” The essence of the book is that most of us have never really learned what it means to “follow.” Thus, how can we draw as near as we might when we hear Jesus say, “Follow Me.”
You can read Bill Dahl's stuff at a website called The Porpoise Driven Life. He's very witty, and I think he has an interesting perspective on Christian life. I don't know why anyone would read a dim bulb like Karen Zerby if they knew about the gifted writers that are only a mouse-click away. Besides Dahl, another great website is internetmonk.com. The original blogger/founder of that site just died of cancer, but there appears to be a group of writers who are continuing the work he started.
Thanks for your compliment on my writing. I can still see the need for further revisions, but I don't have a lot of time to write a lot of commentary on TFI's leadership. It's something I did to distract myself from the enormous frustration I feel over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Someone told me there's a perception in Europe that most Americans don't care about this disaster. Nothing could be further from the truth. There's just not much ordinary citizen like myself can do about it right now except become extremely upset. Do I pray about it? Sure! I tell God how pissed off I am. Do I expect God to fix things? NO! We got ourselves into this mess without God's help--we made our bed, so to speak, and now we have to lay in it.
I will say this for the sake of my GB brothers and sisters on this website--I'm starting to hear more and more people speak hopefully about the ocean currents dumping some of this mess on your shores. BP could be toast as far as its US franchise is concerned.