With you is my contention O Priest

Hosea 4

‘My people perish for lack of knowledge’

IdolatryThe role of the religious authority

– To enable life

The church has manifestly failedTheological renewal is requiredOvercoming priestly idolatries

Control

The castle and the sunControl is always driven by fear= a lack of faithWood in a viceThe Spanish Inquisition

Ego

Luther: Prophecy has costsEgo confused with conscienceProtestantism has become self-

indulgence ‘I am the master of my world’= I worship the worldThe 10,000 things

Erastianism

ChristendomThe church under the control of the

state ‘Be subject to the higher powers’

– Eg civic service!

Selling out souls for a quiet lifeBush: the US is the light shining in

the world

Academy

Theology is not an academic subjectSwallowing the agenda of

modernismThe worship of science (method) Includes fundamentalism as best

exampleDrives liberalism

Worldliness 1

Bread and circuses

Worldliness 2

Sex

Worldliness 3

MulticulturalismBeing ‘nice’

Rampant heresies

Donatism= ‘pure church’

Rampant heresies 2

DocetismAllows for a quieter life

Rampant heresies 3

Dispensationalism ‘the doctrines of men’ ‘don’t take them out of the world’

The shape of wrath

NumbersFinanceScandal

Scandal

Are none exempt?

Where do we go from here?

Read scripture– Not just little pieces

Listen to the fathersOpen your eyes to the world (this is very traditional Anglicanism)

Living in the Kingdom

And what does the Lord require of you?– To do justice– To love kindness– To walk humbly before your God

“A community saturated with God”

Concentrate on Christ

“This is the new covenant…”A people without understanding shall

come to ruin