Comment on February 27th, 2006.
The closest I’ve come to “renouncing Satan” is refusing to read anymore self-help books:-).
Comment on February 27th, 2006.
Say more ruth…
Comment on February 28th, 2006.
Cornell West came to our church again a couple weeks ago, he talekd about something called Socratic self examination. It takes a lot of guts to examine oneself, and take an honest look at where we are at as opposed to where we think we are at, or try to project we are at to those around us.
Comment on February 28th, 2006.
Well, I think one way “Satan” keeps us from turning our lives over to God is by deceiving us that we can manage our lives just fine on our own–with the proper input from therapist or weight loss coach or financial advisor or whatever. So we scurry about looking for our meaning in life from these experts, and as long as we keep ourselves distracted in this manner, we’ll never have to look to God, to Church, for this meaning.
It seems that in the story of Jesus’ temptation, when Satan offers Jesus all the kingdoms of the world if he will only bow down and worship Satan, Jesus should have busted out laughing and said “You can’t give what doesn’t belong to you.” So that’s kind of how I think of the self-help genre as “Satan”–we can’t find life’s meaning by following the advice given, simply because that so-called meaning is only to be found in God. If that makes any sense.
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