The traditions of our fathers.
Posted by appolus on October 12, 2024
I am convinced that 1 Cor 12-14 just cannot exist within the traditions of our fathers. One of the reasons the hippies, the “Jesus freaks,” of the late 60s and early 70s were so refreshing is that the Lord took their rebellion against organized religion and used it in a very simple but highly effective way.
It was like taking a complex arrangement of a song and breaking it down into one man and a guitar where the words and the simple melody could shine through. And then, tragically, that generation became what they had initially rejected. Mostly, I believe, because men wanted positions and titles just like” their fathers,” before them. The simplicity of the original movement got swallowed whole by the religious system it sought to replace.
The Church, I believe, is called to be a counter culture, called out and set apart, to be a beacon in the darkness. Yet, we always seem to underestimate the huge power of the religious mindset. And here we are again, the non denominational system almost entirely consumed by “rot and rut and routine,” as Tozer would put it.
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Anonymous said
I got saved in 1975, and was fortunate enough to get immediately discipled by Jesus freaks, who had trickled up the California coastline, to my semi-rural small city. Although they encouraged me to visit their original southern California epicenter church, they also cautioned that it had become somewhat leavened from its earliest days, during the Jesus Movement. In their words, “it used to be a simple hippy movement, now it’s kind of preppy. That’s partly why we moved up here”. Not all the fire has faded, I think to a small degree it may have just migrated
appolus said
Every movement has to deal with the second generation syndrome. Bonhoeffer spoke to this question in the first few chapters of “The Cost of Discipleship.” …….bro Frank
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