I couldn’t agree more with Bergler’s diagnostic. My hope is that his remedies will live up to that.
Interview with Thomas Bergler on his book The Juvenilization of American Christianity.
[link: EerdWord]
You become like what you worship. You reflect the one you worship.
Those who keep on blogging
Those who help me understand what He said
What we think He is saying
What the world is saying
What the world is expressing
We depend so much on technology, yet we hardly care to know anything about it.
Great minds I finished (or gave up) wrestling with
Great minds that demand me to wrestle with
Where they are
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2 Comments
Anson
I just recently read Eugene Peterson’s Contemplative Pastor and he talks about the spread of the adolescent experience upward through the generations, which is characterized by 2 things: 1) the sense of inadequacy (which leads to constant admiration of other people’s competence and end up making idols to worship) and 2) historical amnesia (i.e. “have no feeling for the past, for precedents and traditions, and so have no perspective in making judgments or discerning values”, which leads to reinventing the wheel all the time, and end up lacking perseverance in doing anything.)
Check out pp. 121-128 if you have that book.
And it’s amazing Peterson wrote this more than 20 years ago….
May 3rd, 2012
edmund
Yes, that’s a very inspiring book I read during my early years as a pastor. And I have gone back to Peterson time and time again for wisdom and deep spiritual reflection. He is truly a prophet of our times!
May 3rd, 2012
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