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Now at dasganze.com which should mean “the whole” in german..

Broken this morning, the same topic I’ve known hit again: Luke 7:40-50 & Luke 18:9-14.
1) as one who does not know what his sin is, and so does not know what forgiveness is. paranoid of sin, and clueless of redemption.

I’m afraid american churches, under the lineage of puritanism are so paranoid of sin. Kids are raised to be ‘good’ in an over-authoritarian home, without the option to be involved in sin. And surely parents never mess up to ever ask forgiveness of their kids.

I swear I see these kids in these hostels here. I think I met one. No clue about living without sin. No fear of sin. Only heard about redemption, but without fear of sin, what is redemption worth?

2) as one who knows his sin, who has become his sin- his identity bound up in it and finds nothing there.. knows the depth he has gone and knows how far Redemption had to go to find him. One who has stood at the edge of life-in-shambles and admitted it as his own doing.

One who has slid down the cliff and though is being pulled out, still needs to fight to stay in the harness.. but it’s so tight.. it hurts.. it restricts. Where is the vision? He once was down, looking down, then he was down looking up, is he now halfway up looking down again? That’s life.

Since wordpress is having issues saving my posts, I’m boycotting and moving to Blogspot.com

Not happy that I can’t import from wordpress.. but at least it POSTS! (I have issues with wordpress.com NOT saving thanks to time-outs and broken-AJAX. C’mon boys, fix it already!)
And this way i can blog from my phone and nokia n800(they made software for that!)

Who needs Jesus dyin’ on the cross, when you’ve got Joy Bauer tellin’ ya how to have a happy, cranky-free life!

So Dr. Mohler posted. It’s a work of genius according to a lady I overheard a few days ago:

“People do not remain loyal to institutions when they no longer believe in their importance.
The importance of the church is essentially tied to the reality of the Gospel.
When people no longer believe that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for salvation, the church becomes a time-consuming irrelevance.”

He’s essentially saying, I’m right, end of game. News DEscribes. And I’m ok with that. Rather, I’m thrilled about that. I don’t want the news explaining reality to me.
Al Mohler took the DEscription of reality and with 2 presuppositions made a PREscription as to why the DEscription is as it is.

Most people aren’t ok with this technique. “How do you know?” and “You’ve never been to Germany- you’ve not talked to the people, understood their position” would easily be heard on the street in reaction to his statements. (Insert cultural-sensitivity here).

He never explained why he has these presupp’s. He takes them as ’self-evident’.

But I look at what he’s writing, and I wonder, “What’s the point? Why, Al Mohler, did you take the 5 minutes to offer your 2 presupp’s on this issue, from this article? What good comes of you writing this?” Did he add anything to what the news did not report? Certainly, he added his 2 statements. To some level, I think he’s simply modeling interpretive technique. I think if you asked him, “What’s it all about (Alfie)?” he’d say he’s “trying to get Christians to see Christian-ly.” And that’s fine if modeling is happening.

What that really means though, on one hand (to the world) that we’re all living with blinders on. That we’re only thinking about things like our Pope tells us to think about them. No independent mind is being encouraged. And to the world, being a lemming is the most in-human thing possible. Oddly enough, I agree.

So now the issue is, “How do leaders lead and develop people who may or may not be able to understand or want development?” If you “think for them” you can be assured that’s either ‘modeling’ or ‘doing it for them.’ As to the latter, I submit “Failure to Launch.” Teachers know that they can lecture about a topic all day, but learning isn’t happening unless the student ‘gets it.’ So I’m left to wonder, “that’s great that you told the world your interp. of German religion, but did anyone ‘get it’?” And that’s a question I can’t answer. I think that’s a question he can’t answer either. The Christian answer here is to say, “Well, God ‘called’ him to address these issues, so that’s what he’s doing. He’s doing his part and leaving the rest up to God.” Honestly, how much of that is just BS? How much is abdicating responsibility? How much of it is ‘wasting time’/ being ineffectual and doing a job half-a*$’d? Part of me wants to say, “if ya can’t do all of it, don’t do any of it.”

Ok.. that sounded more bitter than I meant it..

The trees are green!!

Just to let everyone know, we’ll be switching the clocks around earlier this year.. (which means 1 hr less over some ppl’s spring breaks! <<can’t ya hear all the college kids crying?? I know I am!>>)

..and ID needs to build/become Mac OS X.

..and some ppl would say that ID is ‘vaporware‘.

So, here’s to ID’ers who will do more than find an article and say, “See! I told you so!” It’s a funny thing what ID’ers are up to. If evo is creating the “structure” of how scientists think, then ID is the antithesis that keeps nagging & prodding it saying, “Yeah, no- there’s more than what your little idea says.”

Evo is a framework. So is ID. It’s all about which coat rack you hang the data. Sadly, both are ultimately fideistic when it comes to contrary data. Hence the trouble.

For those of you who need an explanation of the title: Microsoft “owns the market” like evo. Linux is a bunch of hacks who’ve made something quicker, better, faster, but isn’t in the market because it doesn’t have the ‘pretty’ factor. Mac OS X has the quicker, better, faster AND the pretty factor. What that means, by analogy is that Evo has the intellectual “market share” but isn’t the “best thing going” & While ID may be the “best thing going” it doesn’t have market share because it isn’t “full fledged”.