@millinerd Yup, there's dumbing up as much as dumbing down: wising down as much as wising up. In practice then, Christianity Complete is Jesus Incomplete. Until, that is, the crowning of His supersessive authority, yoked to earth reality, owned by none yet overcoming all, the Church first.
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Excerpt from tweet thread here: and 2/ Young once and naive, I assumed the confident refrain seemingly characterizing every anthology of mysticism I'd stumbled upon (namely, "Only mysticism for everybody can save the world") sagely anticipated the forthcoming advent of a mass awakening to mystical common sense. 3/ But it didn't add up. 'Mysticism’ was obscure, opaque and, to most folk, irrelevant or repellent. Soon, provoked by a Guide's averral that "our path will only ever be for the few", I broke with an 'esoteric unilateralism' quite at odds, I felt, with my democratic inclinations.
No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last.
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Opening Prayer Sunday August 25th, 2024 Hope in the Grove Baptist Church, Cottage Grove, OR Dear Lord, Let us never forget you sent your Son to fulfill the Law. Give us this day the grace of Your blessing That our understanding may pierce the Mystery of Christ, That we may be led from the shadow of true things To the reality of the Kingdom itself, Out of the desert of sin, through salvation, To a still greater good of holiness Like branches from the eternal vine Bringing forth goodness According to the glorious transformation Of the resurrection process. Your inspired Word is the seed, Lord. Give us ‘Kingdom eyes’, ‘Kingdom ears’, That we might worship you by living your love, Signposts for the whole world Bearing witness to your promise, purpose and will Making all things new. Thy Kingdom come On earth as it is in heaven, Lord. In the name and spirit of Jesus. Amen.