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Just before surgery last week, I posted an essay that touches upon much of this same problem that has spread like contagion into many churches and our culture. My own thoughts are reflective of what I perceive as the deeply deceptive allure and desire of having a plastic Jesus with a wax nose on hand.
( pastormike.substack.com… ) '
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Just before surgery last week, I posted an essay that touches upon much of this same problem that has spread like contagion into many churches and our culture. My own thoughts are reflective of what I perceive as the deeply deceptive allure and desire of having a plastic Jesus with a wax nose on hand.
( https://pastormike.substack.com/p/triggering-your-plastic-jesus ) '
I think this 'Toxic Pietism' you've written about here is the saltless garnish in today's apostatic soup of feel-good Christianity. Never mind the content or nutritional value, it just looks good and sounds good.
Good work, Michael. I'm considering a follow-up piece to the one I just wrote as I am bed-bound until late February. I have a lot of time to write, and I think God's purpose in our ministry is to be challenging, to be honest and precise, to be convincing and not condemning such that through these messages some will repent and through grace, be brought into salvation.
Unfortunately, there's a kind of willful blindness and arrogance at play in our modern church that has many Christians adopting what I term, "Golden Bus Ticket" theology. (Essentially, they've got their tickets home, no need to do any of that 'other' stuff.)
Blessings from the horizontal pulpit.
Thanks brother! May the Lord grant you a swift recovery as well!