The Thought Has Occurred To Me That...
Often, When We Pray,
Perhaps The Terrifying Truth Is:...
That Our Prayer Can Be More For WHAT We Believe To Be TRUE In Our Mind...
Rather Than WHO Exists In Our HEART...
Have We Mistakenly Prayed To Our Ideology?
Consider Carefully In Sober Fashion Who Our God, At This Juncture, Could Really Be...
A Dogmatic, Brittle and Dead Orthodoxy...
Or Unwitting Passionate Form of Self-Idolization...
Maybe This Is Why Our Prayers Are Always Answered... Just Not Like We Thought They Should Be...
r.s.g 02/03/2009
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Any Time An Ideology Moves Towards Some Form of Human INSTITUTIONALIZATION
It Necessarily Means A Decisive Move Towards CORRUPTION
Because At That Point, The Ideological Issue Almost Always Morphs Over Into The Use of "POWER" - Who Gets It And The Manner By Which They Wield It
Committed Relationships, Collectively Committed To A Common Idea, Need Not Always Be Formally Organized. If They Do, The Issue Inevitably Morphs From One Of Potentially Redemptive Ideals For The Whole, To One Of Self-Serving Power For The Individual.
r.s.g. 1/20/2009
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Are you not, as a pastor, going against this view? By being a church leader you are a part of a human institution gathered around an ideology.
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