Thursday, October 4, 2012

with one accord in one place

“The truth of the Holy Spirit is not central in Christian doctrine.”  So I guess the Holy Spirit is just Harvey the Rabbit’s cousin (movie reference).  The only difference is the Holy Spirit doesn’t have big floppy ears.  The sad fact is people treat the Holy Spirit like Harvey.  I’m sorry but if you believe the opening statement’s “truth” you must also believe that smurfette is every man’s ideal woman.  If you are that ignorant slapping you would not help, it would just reinforce your beliefs.  The Holy Spirit is central because the Holy Spirit is a part of the trinity which means three in one not two and three-quarters in one or two and a half in one. (quote page 29)

The Norway revivals in 37-38 were glorious and wholesome meetings, with little that was crazy or weird (50).  I’m not here to judge whether revival meetings in the 30’s were pleasing to the Lord.  However, when the term, wholesome is used, I think of food not moves of the Holy Spirit.  When Jesus hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors, he wasn’t thinking about their wholesomeness, he was thinking about their pain and loving them.  In addition, saying its wholesome is another way to say your playing it safe with the Holy Spirit.  Plus, saying that its wholesome suggests that if it gets weird or crazy that it would not be good when in fact the opposite can be true.  In addition, if gets crazy or weird that doesn’t mean that what is happening is not from the Lord. (revivals mentioned were mainly lutheran)

the end.

ps the first paragraph is referencing the movie harvey which is about an invisible bunny, james stewart's character has a one way conversation through the whole movie with this bunny.

 

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