Humility or Humiliation?

  If the church is as much of a mess as it seems like it is, or more likely even worse than it seems, then it may well be good to question what we are going to church for, why we gather, or rather why we should gather. I really don't see the use of going to a church that is little more than a theater, where the music and the preaching are nothing more than a performance. And while, yes, that includes the more modern seeker types of churches and the holy roller charismatics, that also includes the more refined high-church types of services, because those are little more than performances, too. This video says many things, and one thing that is encouraged is that believers should gather to encourage each other to love and to good works.

 

 

I liked a lot of what this man said, and thought it something good to share for anyone to hear and think about.

 

There is a lot in this video, and at least at this moment I don’t intend to respond to much of it, but there is one part that I think I can respond to. To give some context, in the overall video the speaker is talking about what he calls “7 Marks of the Pre-War Consensus”, and by Pre-War he means World War II. The below quote is in the part where he’s speaking about “covenant”, and the time when the quote begins is at 17:20 In the summer of 1872 Chinese workers--they had helped build the transcontinental railroad and once they were done building it they returned to these crowded western towns. The laborers in California, they erupted in fury they were so upset they had placards they were holding up, thing like “The Chinese must go”, mobs sort of driving families away from their homes, but fascinatingly—again we’re in the pre-war world—so Congress listened and on May 6th President Chester A Arthur he signed the Chinese Exclusion Act which was like the first federal law to ban an entire ...