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Sigh. . . . Church<\/a> did it again. How? How can things be so different <\/em>in this world? It surprises me every time. Every. single. time.<\/p>\n

We sang this verse of “O Come All Ye Faithful<\/a>” yesterday:<\/p>\n

God of God, Light of Light;
\nLo, he abhors not the Virgin’s womb:
\nVery God, Begotten, not created;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Nicene Creed<\/a> verse. I have never sung it before. Never, ever<\/em>. And mind you — AGAIN — it’s not like I haven’t been in church, and I don’t sing a lot. My M.A. in Church Music and D.M. hubby<\/a> hadn’t ever sung it before either.<\/p>\n

How? How did we skip this one? How can we forget that very important idea? How dare we . . . no, how dare THEY continue their rants about the shallowness of Christmas hymns when they don’t sing about the most important doctrine in all of Christendom<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Pastor Lewis<\/a> also talked about making a list of things you feel guilty about . . . And I had a (small and non-intrusive) flashback again. That was a practice in our previous life. Jim Berg<\/a> instructs his counselees and counselors-in-training to make a list of all their sins. He instructed one named “Chris” to study\u00a0Philippians\u00a02:3-16 and list\u00a0“seventy-five ways he was selfish at home, at work, and at school.” In order to know what he needed to work on.<\/p>\n

But that’s not how Andy meant it. Andy said to make a list to kiss those things to God. To hold them up to Him and say, “Here. I can’t pay for these! You’re going to have to take them<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

In Christianity, it’s confession. In Fundamentalism, it’s a to-do list. In Christianity, it’s redemption. In Fundamentalism, it’s moralism.<\/p>\n

If you go meta, Fundamentalism all makes sense. Ignore Jesus, and make a list of moral failings. Self-righteously rant about everyone’s shallowness in order to distract from your list of selfish acts. It all fits together. Even the so-called “intellectual fundamentalists<\/a>” are finding new ways to insist we have to work harder.<\/p>\n

No. Oh dear me, no. By Christ’s all-sufficient merit<\/a>. Pure and simple. That’s it. I don’t need to try harder because even my trying harder will miserably fail. All my righteousnesses are as filthy rags<\/a>. How do they miss that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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