Fascinating post at Jesus Creed, with the best bits being mostly in the comments. Scot has posted a short letter:
Scot, what are the “everyday heresies” the church embraces and/or espouses? Any insight? Wondering if complacency, consumerism, and the outsourcing of parental responsibility are more harmful than doctrinal irregularities or inconsistencies.
via A Brief Letter from a Friend: Everday Heresies – Jesus Creed.
It’s a fascinating question, and I think it’s a great opportunity to reassess what your Christianity looks like. For me, the question captured me in thinking about “outsourcing (parental) responsibility”, and considering what other responsibilities I’ve tended to outsource (given that I’m not a parent… yet). In lots of ways, I’ve outsourced any evangelistic responsibility to people who are more gifted, or at least more extroverted. Taking responsibility ourselves for just about anything seems to me to be a real dark area for us as the church, and for me personally.
I think another heretical trap I’ve fallen into is that knowledge = belief = faith = salvation. As a fairly academically oriented person it’s so much simpler and nicer to centre my spirituality around knowledge and belief, rather than anything that requires action.
But enough of the wallowing. I want to know what “everyday heresies” we the church are ignoring – but with one proviso. You need to own it yourself: there’ll be no cases of “we the church” becoming “them the church”. If you’re lacking ideas (or just after an interesting read), have a look on Jesus Creed at the comments on the original post.