This
conference proposes that WE
allow the worlds imagined
in the essential
biblical narratives
to dramatically shape
our preaching and lives.
We believe that preaching REconstitutes
biblical paradigms when it engages Scripture’s
vision
- by
REpresenting what is absent
- and
making present what is inaccessible
- to
the end that followers of God will live into a God-shaped
reality.
Notes from God about ungodly
imagination.
The Word or Logos is God Breathing (Spirit) and Jesus
Articulating the Regulative Principle for the Church.
Those who are ANTILogos are ANTICHRIST. Isaiah 55
forbids the lambs from PROCURING the Free Water of the
Word. That means that it is not Possible for an
unbeliever to sell God's WORDS. Those who speak on
their on are called sons of the Devil
We
identify
biblical paradigms [Patterns] through
the emphases Israel and the church gave
them or by the claims made by the texts
themselves.
The Paradigm
means Parables God uses to hide from the
merchants. The Paradigm also means LOGOS.
Those who try
to RECONSTITUTE God made known in His Word are
being MARKED for avoidance.
What Paul calls “of first importance” and
Jesus
describes as “weightier” suggest a hierarchy
of values--that some parts of Scripture have
greater claim than others. These pivotal texts
which echo through Scripture should craft the
Christian experience as well.
[mark of ignorance] See
note of first.
With a vision deeply rooted in biblical
studies and a homiletic that seeks to live in
the world Scripture envisions, this
year we ask:
What claims on our lives does the
Exodus narrative imagine?
Join us as we move into this world
with the desire that our preaching, our lives, and the
congregations we serve might better engage the essential realities.
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Lipscomb University lists the experts they do not
give the denominational background. They defacto agree
with the false doctrine of those teachers.
When a group turns to music, drama, visions and
imagination it is a frantic effort to restore Mother
Goddess Worship.. That is why rhetoric is defined as
effeminate along with singing and music.
Gen. 6:5 And GOD saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
that every imagination of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen. 8:21 And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the
LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the
ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of
man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I
again smite any more every thing living, as I have
done.
For those still attached to the masculine WORD of God John
warns us of the mother of harlots (Revelation 17) who uses
the lusted after "fruits" as rhetoricians, singers and
instrument players. John calls them sorcerers who HAD
deceived the whole world. The musicians or Muses are
the dirty adulteress "musical worship team" working for
Apollo, Abaddon or Apollyon.
THE RISE OF MOTHER GODDESS WORSHIP
In warning against women and the outbreak of wrath or
orgy, Paul markes the priests of Cybele who were
emasculated and even had a sex reassignment before jethey
could qualify. Therefore, the quest for the VISIONS
and IMAGINATION is the clear MARK of a total taking
capture of a church or once Christian university.
Lynn Anderson and Rubel Shelly have
followed
the feminists and Lesbian Methodists in their revisioning
or reimaging of the church: they claim that they have new
SPETACLES.
Karen Armstrong, in A History of God, shows how the pagan clergy attempted to neutralize the One God Who was spoken
of as male:
- "God lay beyond
'gender' but, as in the Enuma Elish, each pair of
emanations consisted of a male and female--a scheme
which attempted to neutralize the
masculine tenor of more conventional monotheism. Each pair of emanations grew weaker and more attenuated,
since they were getting even further from their
divine Source." (p. 95)
Speaking of the mystics, Armstrong
showed how the new, gender-neutral
gods are to be
worshipped:
- "This God is to be approached through the
imagination and can
be seen as a kind of art form, akin to the other great artistic symbols
that have expressed the ineffable mystery,
beauty and the value of life.
- Mystics
have used music, dancing, poetry, fiction, stories, painting, sculpture and architecture to express this Reality which goes beyond
concepts." (P. 396)
Lynn Anderson: The mind-set of the times
threatens to strip our faith of symbols, rituals, dramas,
mystery, poetry, and story,
- which say
about life and God what logic and reason and rationalism can never say. See Volkism
Guided Imagery:
David Hunt, in his two
books, The Seduction of Christianity (1985) and Beyond Seduction (1987), first chronicled
the influence of Carl Jung's ideas in the modern
church. He wrote of Agnes Sanford whose visualization techniques are founded in
shamanistic practices of
the occult and
who expressed pantheistic
beliefs similar to those held by Carl Jung.
The Vineyard Christian Fellowships, headed by
John Wimber, are heavily involved in the use of imagination, visualization, and inner healing.
There has been criticism that to a large extent allowing
God to "guide the imagination" has been placed on
a level equal to the authority of the Bible, which has
created a great deal of confusion. David Hunt, (p. 174 Seduction of
Christianity
John was literate and understood
Hesiod and we understand the meaning of the LOCUSTS as
the Muses of Revelation.
[25] the Muses of Olympus,
daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis: "Shepherds
of the wilderness, wretched
things of shame, mere
bellies, we know how to speak many false things as though they were true; but we know,
when we will, to utter true things." |
David Lipscomb Still speaks for the
OWNERS: All service in his kingdom not
ordained by him, all organizations not builded by him, not
commanded in his word, are without the seals of his blood,
are unsanctified and defile the temple of God.
The letter to the Hebrews x: 28, further declares,
"He who despised Moses' law died without mercy under
two or three witnesses. Of how much sorer punishment,
suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath
trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted
the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was
sanctified, an unholy thing, and has done despite to
the Spirit of grace." [45]
To despise Moses' law was to turn from the law given by
Moses and sealed by the typical blood, to service
not so given. He who turns from the appointments
given by the Son of God, sealed by his blood, revealed
and confirmed by the Spirit of God, or places upon
equality with them as service to God the acts and
institutions of man's wisdom, tramples under foot
the authority of Jesus Christ, and makes it
nothing.
For if man's wisdom can guide
into the service of God, it is as good as the wisdom of
God. So to make services based on the opinions of man,
not sealed by the blood of Christ, a part of the worship
of God, is to place them upon equality with the
blood-sealed appointments of Jesus Christ and the
wisdom and authority of man on equality with the wisdom
and authority of God. To do this is to count the blood
of Christ which seals the covenant, unholy--that is,
without sanctifying efficacy. If service
in the ways based on man's opinions, unsealed by
the blood of Christ, is acceptable to God, it is equal
to that service rendered through the blood-sealed
appointments, hence the blood is of no avail, it is
unholy, and does not consecrate or sanctify the service
sealed by it.
To serve God in ways based on the opinions
of man, is to turn from the Spirit, is to refuse to be
led by the Spirit, and is to place his teachings on a
level with the teachings of God. Hence the seal of the
blood and the teachings of the Spirit are of no value.
To introduce or observe a service based on the opinions
or wisdom of man, is to trample under foot the
Son of God, despise his authority, count
the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an
unholy thing, and do "despite unto the Spirit of Grace."
Those who thus treat the law of him who speaks from
heaven, will receive a punishment much sorer than those
who rejected the law of Moses.
David Lipscomb continues: "As an
example, the Spirit of God said,
"Christians [46] must speak to
themselves in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in
your hearts to the Lord."
Here is Divine requirement for
singing.
........This
comes to us as the direction of the Spirit
[the Word]
........sealed
with the blood of Christ.
........Man's
opinion introduces an organ.
When an organ is introduced into the
worship
........it
is placed on equality with the singing.
........It
is really placed above it,
........and
over-rides and supersedes it.
But say it is there as
a part of the service of God.
It stands on equality with the
appointments of God.
The authority of the Spirit
and the blood of Christ go for nothing--they are not needed to render the
service acceptable, since
the organ without the authority of God
and the blood of Christ, is acceptable.
If any service not authorized by the word of God, not sealed by the blood of
Christ, is acceptable to God---then that authority and blood are not
needed
to render any service acceptable,
........
and to introduce those not authorized and sealed
........
is to declare the sanction of the Spirit and the
seal of the blood
...... ..are not needed--not holy--do not
sanctify.
It is equally true of institutions
in which we serve God.
........The churches of Christ, local
and distinct,
........are ordained
by God--sealed by the blood of Jesus,
........and given us by the Spirit
of God, for the purpose
........of saving and elevating
men and honoring God.
To accept these and work in them, is
to honor their author and
........ to show an appreciation of the
blood that seals them,
........ and it is to follow the Spirit of
God.
To organize other institutions upon the opinion or
judgment of man, through which to work,is to declare man's judgment equal
to the wisdom of God,
........it is to declare the sanctifying power
of the blood, not needed,
........or it is to ignore that there is
sanctifying power in the blood
........and to set at naught the teachings of
the Spirit.
This is to trample under foot the Son of God, to
count the blood of the covenant unholy--without
sanctifying power, and thus [47] to set at naught or do
despite to the Spirit of Grace.
This is true of all service based on the authority
of man's opinions or judgment.
The pastor distinct from the eldership, is added as
a matter of opinion.
This opinion of man becomes equivalent to or above the
order of God,
........which ordains the elders as the
teachers.
........The pastorate becomes more important
than the eldership.
........It degrades the authority that ordains
the eldership for the church. Again,
the Lord ordained that his church should be carried
forward by free gifts, honestly gained, cheerfully given
by his children. This has the sanction of the Spirit, and
is sealed by the blood of Christ.
Men on their opinions hold festivals, fairs and frolics,
to entice men, for fleshly gratification, to give
their money, and this is brought into the temple of God,
on an equal footing with that contributed according to the
direction of God. This is to trample under foot the Lord
Jesus Christ, to count the blood of the covenant unholy,
of no value, and it is to do despite to the Spirit of
Grace.
These things are properly defined "fads, fancies,
preferences, based on opinion and nothing but opinion."
To
introduce them into the worship or church of God, is to
make man's opinion a basis and rule of action for the
church, and a fad or fancy or human opinion, equal to a
blood-sealed ordinance of God. This is to place man's
opinion on an equality with the word of God. This is to
degrade the authority of God, to trample under foot the
Lord Jesus and his authority, to count the blood of the
covenant unholy, of no value, and to reject the
teachings of the Holy Spirit.
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