Idols of Awesome and Shibboleths of Community

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Idols of Awesome and Shibboleths of Community

 

 

 

By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | May 8th, 2013 at 11:31 AM |

 

Every once in a while I stumble over something that opens my eyes wide to a lot of the silliness of secularism that pervades evangelicalism and, in turn, warps the whole of generations. Anthony Bradley points out that there is a crazy movement going on right now within young evangelical circles to shun the suburbs and engage in a “new legalism” of radical faith.

 

The best I can figure is that somehow suburbs are just bad. (Read Keith Miller on this point) I think there is something bigger than that and it goes beyond evangelicals to, particularly, millenials and those who close out the tail end of Gen X and Y. We’ve made idols of the awesome in our lives. All of us.

 

Each of us forms in our head an ideal. Instead of enjoying our present where, as CS Lewis noted, we are closest to God, we either

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Everyone wants to be a Faith Hero! But.....

 

A. Someone has to make bolts, bake bread, sell cars, drive trucks....etc

B. Who is to say exactly who is the real powerful Faith Warrior?

 

 

 

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I see the author's point and guess I mostly agree but don't know what to say. Mostly too distracted by other news.

Will have to think on this one since I am one of those baby boomer evangelicals.