tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post465539452913878729..comments2024-03-27T15:47:46.091-05:00Comments on Pastoral Meanderings: Not Starting with a Blank SlatePastor Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10653554256101480140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329600504016968888.post-3168216070880321772010-09-09T05:48:43.138-05:002010-09-09T05:48:43.138-05:00"Not Starting with a Blank Slate" but ra..."Not Starting with a Blank Slate" but rather we start with Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans. The following is quoted from Tozer on Christian Leadership:<br /><br />And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ.<br />-1 Corinthians 3:1<br /><br />I believe that it might be well for us if we just stopped all of our business and got quiet and worshiped God and waited on Him. It doesn't make me popular when I remind you that we are a carnal bunch, but it is true, nevertheless, that the body of Christians is carnal. The Lord's people ought to be a sanctified, pure, clean people, but we are a carnal crowd. We are carnal in our attitudes, in our tastes and carnal in many things. Our young people often are not reverent<br />in our Christian services. We have so degraded our religious tastes that our Christian service is largely exhibitionism.<br /><br />We desperately need a divine visitation-for our situation will never be cured by sermons! It will never be cured until the Church of Christ has suddenly been confronted with what one man called the *mysterium tremendium-the fearful mystery that is God, the fearful majesty that is God. This is what the Holy Spirit does. He brings the wonderful mystery that is God to us, and presents Him to the human spirit. The Counselor, 66-67.<br /><br />*Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans - Latin phrase coined by the German Protestant theologian Rudolf Otto to name the awe-some (fascinating and full of awe) mystery that, he argued in his German work on comparative theology, Das Heilige (1917; translated as The Idea of the Holy, 1923), was the object common to all forms of religious experience.ErnestOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13077415409728022160noreply@blogger.com