Grammatical questions
Today's topic is how grammatical weirdness in the evangelical world shows a lot about the state of its spiritual health.
For instance, If I hear "God" used as an adjective one more time, I am going to scream. "It's a 'God' thing." "That's just so 'God.'" "We had a big 'God' night." These are a few of the types of quotes you hear and read if you're out and about the evangelical media at all. I often hear or read this type of quote from so-called youth pastors, who ought to know better than to so cavalierly refer to the holy and righteous Creator and Sustainer of the universe.
My other complaint: Using the word 'worship' with no direct object. This is very prevalent in the so-called 'worship' movement of CCM. I constantly see references to "worship" without mention of WHO is being worshiped! "We just want to come together and worship." Where is the rest of the sentence? WHOM are you worshiping, folks?
Forget that line about putting Christ back in Christmas. It's getting so we need to put Christ back into our Christianity! Or, more accurately, we need to get on our faces before our Lord Jesus Christ himself and ask him to have mercy on his backslidden, cold and hardhearted church.
Praying for grace,
mlj
For instance, If I hear "God" used as an adjective one more time, I am going to scream. "It's a 'God' thing." "That's just so 'God.'" "We had a big 'God' night." These are a few of the types of quotes you hear and read if you're out and about the evangelical media at all. I often hear or read this type of quote from so-called youth pastors, who ought to know better than to so cavalierly refer to the holy and righteous Creator and Sustainer of the universe.
My other complaint: Using the word 'worship' with no direct object. This is very prevalent in the so-called 'worship' movement of CCM. I constantly see references to "worship" without mention of WHO is being worshiped! "We just want to come together and worship." Where is the rest of the sentence? WHOM are you worshiping, folks?
Forget that line about putting Christ back in Christmas. It's getting so we need to put Christ back into our Christianity! Or, more accurately, we need to get on our faces before our Lord Jesus Christ himself and ask him to have mercy on his backslidden, cold and hardhearted church.
Praying for grace,
mlj
1 Comments:
Good point, MLJ! I also hate when the word faith is used without specifying faith in whom!!!!
Gov. Huckabee has a stong and abiding faith. FAITH IN WHAT!!!!
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