Everybody wants to be a savior but nobody wants to die on a cross...
In this post enlightenment egocentric narcissistic naval gazing world that we live in the only thing ever on display is pride. How many subs do you have? How many views did you get? How many thumbs up? People are great at justifying their egocentric obsession with metrics and accolades but in the end it's just pride...Combine that with the hyper-masculineization / loss of the feminine in our society and you end up with the current discourse... To your point the church is participating in rather than standing apart from this crazy upside down world that we've created.... And many will argue that the progressive impulse is not only justified but also biblical... in the end though it's just pride and a quest for recognition which are the worst traits of the masculine...
Agreed. Flummoxed for an answer to it all. I have a working hypothesis that we lost it at the family level -- lost the primal sensemaking apparatus. But even that seems tenuous. What a mess. :-/
Everybody wants to be a savior but nobody wants to die on a cross...
In this post enlightenment egocentric narcissistic naval gazing world that we live in the only thing ever on display is pride. How many subs do you have? How many views did you get? How many thumbs up? People are great at justifying their egocentric obsession with metrics and accolades but in the end it's just pride...Combine that with the hyper-masculineization / loss of the feminine in our society and you end up with the current discourse... To your point the church is participating in rather than standing apart from this crazy upside down world that we've created.... And many will argue that the progressive impulse is not only justified but also biblical... in the end though it's just pride and a quest for recognition which are the worst traits of the masculine...
Agreed. Flummoxed for an answer to it all. I have a working hypothesis that we lost it at the family level -- lost the primal sensemaking apparatus. But even that seems tenuous. What a mess. :-/