The Truth War thoughts.

Since we never did get to meet regarding The Truth War, I decided to post some of my personal thoughts on the book over on my personal blog before it had been too long since reading the book. I'm hoping we can get this reading group rolling again. Having been in contact with most of the regulars, I know that it's been a busy past few months for all of us. Over the next few weeks, I'm hoping to get through The Question of God and perhaps in the new year we'll be able to meet and discuss.

September 20 - Meeting to discuss 'Truth War'

Due to scheduling issues we have had to postpone the August 16 meeting to Discuss the July book "Truth War" by John MacArthur. The new date for the meeting is Saturday September 20th at 8:30 AM. We'll keep the location at Dunn Bros. Coffee at 8975 Metcalf, in Overland park, KS. See you there.

Truth War: Chapters 1 and 2

What a great discussion that we had for Kenneth Millers book: Finding Darwins God. The book The Truth War is intended to be a piggy-back off that discussion in what I feel is a broad issue of looking at the world through a post-modern lens. What I'd like to do is to use this book as a springboard for a discussion that encompasses more than just our spiritual lives but, also, our interactions as a general society. This book does a good job at detailing the effects of a post-modern view on the church but what I'd like to see us do is answer this question: What effects do the post-modern view have on our society and what are the ramifications of these effects. Here are a few of my thoughts from Chapters 1 and 2 Basically, if you viewed the world through a lens with a post-modern view essentially you'd be saying that there is no absolute truth as every truth is changed from individual to individual; What is true for me may not be truth for you. What I find interesting about the post-modern (PM) view is how you answer the question: Is anything truly wrong. With this viewpoint, one could justify just about anything in the name of their moral code. I see a stark difference between those who view the world through the PM lens vs. using the bible as their standard. Many of those who do not profess to be christian, use the bible as the "measuring stick" of truth. Why? I believe that we have a innate desire for truth that is immovable and unwavering. Theoretically speaking, if everyone had a PM view, the world would be in total chaos as everyone would be "justified" in their actions. Everyone would feel that they were right. John MacAuthur gives several scriptures to justify his view of using the bible as the standard. Which I will not go into detail here but, one thought that I found interesting was Orthodoxy Vs. Orthopraxy. Orthodoxy (right thinking and opinion of the bible) and Orthopraxy (right practice of the bible) are, many times, separated in our churches. We've seen the Emergent Church focus more on the Orthopraxy and shy away from the Orthodoxy. Why?.... Just like society, it makes our churches feel better to fill a need in the world than to share the truth that comes from scripture. This is why we see churches stepping up efforts to help with things like world hunger, AIDS, inner-city health care, Habitat for Humanity, etc. but not spending time teaching sound doctrine. But if these churches would live out scripture, they'd see that they have to do both. Otherwise, you'd have a lot of poor folks in the inner-city with heath care but without salvation. What's the point in that? Anyway... just a couple of random thoughts..... what are yours?