Archive for March, 2005
Friday, March 25th, 2005
On Gospel Notes I’ve posted an article on Bill Bright’s “Four Spiritual Laws” and nine alternative approaches to the cross.
Being Good Friday I thought it would be appropriate to consider the deep significance of what actually happened in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. I believe that the cross (on which Jesus died) ties all those aspects of Jesus into one. But the four spiritual laws doesn’t do that event justice.
I’m working on a resource with my colleagues that will help people talk about Jesus in ways that connect with the variety of New Testament images for good news, as well as connect with the many kinds of experiences of God today.
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
On Duncan’s TV Adland I’ve just posted on Tip Top’s Ice Fishing TV advert.
The 2002 TV commercial has been doing the rounds without the reference to the product - which is a bit of a shame. Loses the irony.
There was another ad with a polar bear which is on the George Weston site but only available to people with a media password.
For the gen on the whole ad, with a link to M&C Saatchi’s quicktime version of Roger Tompkins’ work, see my post at Duncan’s TV Adland.
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
I’ve been working with a few groups recently, exploring the heart of the good news of Jesus as a basis for exploring evangelism.
The classic explanation of the Christian gospel is found in the Four Spiritual Laws, developed by Bill Bright for Campus Crusade for Christ.
1. God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.
2. Man is SINFUL and SEPARATED from God. Therefore, he cannot know and experience God’s love and plan for his life.
3. Jesus Christ is God’s ONLY provision for Man’s sin. Through Him you can know and experience God’s love and plan for your life.
4. We must individually RECEIVE Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord; then we can know and experience God’s love and plan for our lives.
The presentation ends with the the sinner’s prayer:
“Lord Jesus, I need you. Thank You for dying on the cross for my sins. I
open the door of my life and receive You as my Savior and Lord. Thank You for
forgiving my sins and giving me eternal life. Take control of the throne of my
life. Make me the kind of person You want me to be.”
This is the explanation with which I was encouraged to ‘make a decision’ for Christ, as a fifteen year old teenager. It’s based on the substitutionary atonement model put forward by Paul in the Letter to the Romans. I responded with a resounding yes to God.
However, the four spiritual laws framework doesn’t fit so well now. I could rephrase the language to make it more inclusive gender wise. But over time I’ve come to experience the life, death and resurrection in many more ways than these ‘four spiritual laws’ can explain.
One approach I’ve found helpful is the ‘Ten Gates to the Cross”, developed by John Driver in his book, “Understanding the Atonement for the Mission of the Church”, Herald Press, 1986. (buy it through Amazon.com
). The Ten Gates approach was picked up and popularised in New Zealand by Gordon Miller, of World Vision, in his Leadership Letter.
The image I find helpful is the cross surrounded by a wall in which there are ten gates. A person first sees the cross through one of those gates. Over time that person has the opportunity to walk around and see the cross from different perspectives. What Driver gives us is the reminder that there are at least nine other approaches to the cross besides the classic ‘guilt/forgiveness’ gate.
1. The Deliverance Gate speaks of Christ’s victory over the powers of darkness.
2. The Suffering Gate focuses on Christ’s suffering for us.
3. The Leadership Gate holds Jesus out to us as a representative person, pioneer, forerunner and firstborn.
4. The Martyrdom Gate reminds us of how Jesus laid down his life for us.
5. The Transformation Gate traces our new vibrant Christian life back to Jesus’ sacrificial death.
6. The Cleansing Gate gathers up all the richness of the Old Testament mercy seat picture.
7. The Service Gate captures the life of service we owe to the One who purchased us from the slave-market of sin
8. The Peace Gate reminds us of how God turns his enemies into friends.
9. The Forgiveness Gate speaks of the marvellous new relationship we have with God when we accept the death of Christ for our sin.
10. The Family Gate focuses on the wonderful family privileges we now enjoy through the death of Christ.
Responses I’ve had when preaching through this have been varied. Some people have been greatly relieved to find their understanding of the cross was aligned with a New Testament approach. Others are annoyed that I’d made things far too complicated. They liked it when they could put the basic contract with God in a few sentences. How would we know if someone was a real Christian now? Some of the same people thought this sounded like pluralism, ‘New Age’ and liberalism. Gordon’s response, when I talked it through with him, was keep preaching it from the New Testament so it’s clear it’s not just ‘New Age’.
What I’m now working on is what would it look like if someone responded to God through the other nine gates? What are the alternatives to the classic sinner’s prayer?
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
My 17 year-old son is on his first day of school holidays today. And to mark the occasion, he’s invited 30 people round for an XBox LAN party. This is the third one we’ve had here. They keep getting bigger. We’ve got two data projectors set up in different rooms. Two TVs in the lounge/living room. Each can have four people playing. There’s potential for another three televisions if people turn up with them. They’re all linked up via a router and a switch.
Microsoft’s Halo 2 is all about carnage. Aliens (an alliance known as the Covenant) have invaded Earth and threaten to wipe out the human race. These are the aliens that were encountered in outer space in Halo: Combat Evolved. The team’s challenge is to defend the Earth and then pursue the aliens through space to ensure that they don’t return. That’s the campaign version of the game. What’s happening today is the more competitive version in which individuals or teams take each other in a variety of environments with a variety of arsenals. Rocket launchers, sniper rifles, shotguns and machine guns (and more) are supplemented by the weapons of the Covenant, beam rifle, energy sword, plasma rifle and needler (and more).
So what about the ethics of playing shoot and kills games?
I remember a movement in the 1980s to keep toy guns out of the hands of kids. Parents (mostly mothers) supported one another to keep ‘cowboys and indians’ and ‘cops and robbers’ out of the backyard. That movement’s still strong in parts of the United States and is moving toward making the sale of toy guns illegal.
What we’ve got here on screen is basically cowboys and indians with a much higher level of sophistication. At least it’s not as graphic as some other games that feature blood and decapitation.
I’ve played a few games with the guys. It’s exciting. It demands high levels of awareness and skill. But occasionally I’m off playing. Like after watching a documentary on the Columbine School shootings.
Believe it or not, some people have worked on a Christian platform for playing Halo 2. Like Dare 2 Share’s E Team Revolution. Lane Palmer, Director of Equipping, has written a brief for Christians looking to make a connection between their on-screen fighting and sharing their faith. He suggests three angles. One - make the connection between the plot (saving the Earth) and the Christian story. Two - talk about what happens when you die. Three - share the gospel with other players online.
There’s an online Halo 2 clan called “Warriaz of Christ“. Fifty people who put Lane Palmer’s principles into action.
OK I can see some possibilities there. But at the same time there’s a challenge that goes right to the heart of the conflict between ‘just war’ and ‘pacifist at all costs’ approaches. As one online writer cynically comments, “Hallelujah, Ian, many people don’t know that Jesus actually entered Jerusalem carrying a needler rifle.”
I wrote an article a couple of years ago on a laser skirmish game run at a Christian youth event. I was one of the professional soldiers - there to be taken out by teams of young people. The article’s online at www.pacificparks.ucaqld.com.au/ignite.htm. I said there that we can easily buy into the ‘us and them’ approach, focusing all our fear and mistrust onto one group of people.
There’s a useful web site helping parents work out what their kids are engaging with in video games. Mediawise has a public service announcement (psa) tv advert with a boy describing his participation in dismemberment, decapitation and killing of innocent people. It’s a vivid reminder of the effect of such video games on the minds of young and impressionable kids. The video’s a flash animation (198 kb) but it’s also available in quicktime format (3 MB)at Hungry Man, under the portfolio of the director, Scott Vincent.
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005
Went out to coffee with a colleague this morning. He mentioned that this afternoon he was heading off to the Helensvale State High School Local Chaplaincy Committee (LCC). And that he was not going to accept nomination as chairperson. So… what did I do? I turned up myself and got voted on as the new chairperson.
Basically the role involves chairing monthly meetings of the LCC on Wednesday afternoons. It involves providing pastoral support for the chaplains at Helensvale State High School, Pacific Pines State High School and Upper Coomera State High School. And in the event of losing one of those people, finding a replacement. Graeme Eastwell, from Helensvale Presbyterian, has just finished six years in the position.
Long Bradley has been employed as chaplain at Helensvale State High School since 2000 and works three days a week. His web page is included in the school web site. He provides pastoral care for students, especially in times of grief and loss. He also connects students with appropriate support groups and agencies. As well as this, he attends excursions, camps and other events, runs a lunchtime games-based program, coordinates the Religious Education program, and provides a link between the school, community and churches.
The chaplaincy in schools is coordinated by Scripture Union in Queensland.
One of the big challenges of the year will be getting new churches on board in the new housing areas of Pacific Pines and Coomera. The churches there are all in their fledgling stages and are not in a strong position to contribute financially. But the need is great. Pacific Pines High School had a chaplain last year and are in the process of appointing someone new for a day a week. Upper Coomera State College are in the process of appointing a voluntary chaplain.
Helensvale State High opened just over twenty years ago and is known as one of the biggest high schools in Queensland. Pacific Pines High started in 2000 . I’ve noticed it doesn’t have a web site. Might be worth following up. Upper Coomera has opened in the last year.
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Monday, March 21st, 2005
Hugh Mackay’s central audience in “Generations” is the Baby Boom generation. These are the generation most aware of their identity as a cohort, the most likely to buy and read his book.
Mackay in 1997 describes the life of the cohort born in the late 1940s and early 1950s as
a dream start, full of the promise of an endless prosperity, followed by turbulence and hardship in their middle years.
The baby boom is connected with the marriage boom and the economic boom in Australia: responses to postwar optimism. Construction and manufacturing were growing as the older ‘Lucky Generation’ expected permament economic growth.
At the same time, Baby Boomers were growing up in a world polarised by a cold war between two competing ideologies: communism and capitalism.
Mackay points to a fascinating tension between optimism and idealism on the one side and the belief that the world could end in catastrophic nuclear war.
This is the generation who were brought up with a quest for personal happiness, expectation of material comfort and the ideal of egalitarianism. In mid life Baby Boomers have discovered that these expectations come with prices: high divorce rates, two-income households, and STRESS.
‘Elastic Adolescence’
Mackay puzzles over the nostalgia of Boomers who ‘refuse to grow up’.
“They have become the generation who are still determined to stuff themselves into blue jeans in their late forties (partly to pretend they are not as old as they are, partly to remind themselves of how they looked in their teens, and partly to symbolise their determination to ’stay close’ to their own children). They are still playing the music of their youth and young adulthood…”
This approach strikes me as an example of generational misunderstanding. This generation who will never grow into copies of their parents. It is a generation defined by the development of an alternative culture which was mistakenly assumed to be youth culture only. I see this in churches that expect people in their thirties and forties to suddenly tune in to traditional forms of worship. Or churches that say that their focus on work with the ‘Lucky Generation’ will pay dividends as the baby boomers start retiring. The bad news is that the retiring baby boomers are not likely to switch cultures.
The irony is that the Lucky Generation have the same approach but are not so aware of it. Ask them what they were listening to between the ages of seventeen and twenty five and they’ll break into community singing. The tastes they developed back then haven’t gone away. Likewise their approaches to short hair and formal clothing.
‘Wanted: Tampons With Beepers’
What a heading! It certainly captures the sense of the fast pace of the Boomer generation. Stress for many is ‘inextricably linked in their minds with the idea of busyness’. It’s not just managing their own hectic lives, but also organising the lives of their children.
‘Shifting Sands: Marriage and Work’
Mackay tells us that “Boomers envy their parents for having lived at a time when things seemed more ‘cut and dried’ and when even personal morality seemed more straightforward than it does in the kaleidoscope of relativity and postmodernism.”
Hmm. I imagine that this envy might surface at times of mid life crisis of early Boomers. Perhaps this is an example of the nostalgia Mackay refers to earlier. But it is superseded by the change of values relating to marriage and family.
It’s the Baby Boomers who started talking about the quality of relationships: the quality of intimacy, quality time. And perhaps because of those very expectations, Boomers surpassed their parents in the rate of marriage breakdown. It could be argued that marriages had broken down just as much before, but had not been allowed to be dissolved. But now, with the relaxing of expectations regarding gender roles, and the increased financial independence of women, divorces could be considered openly. Mackay remarks that the majority of divorces are now being intiated by women.
Boomers left school with a choice of well paid careers before them. Now, in mid life and beyond, many have experienced redundancy or retrenchment. Men and women have learned to adjust to two-income families. Men, in particular, have had to rethink their sense of identity with something other than work.
‘It all seems so serious’
Boomers in Mackay’s focus groups are discovering that ‘life is harder than they expected it to be…. that their beloved freedom has given way to a feeling of being enclosed by responsibilities, pressures and anxieties.’
I’m wondering how much of the distinct values of this generation are coming through here. By taking a group of people facing mid life crisis it would be expected that issues are related to life stage more than to generational values.
Mackay considers the contrast between the exuberance of the anti-Vietnam protests and the heavy-going middle years. He comments that these Boomers are taking the task of parenting more seriously than their parents did.
I agree with Mackay where he says that the Boomers are consistent really. Their whole lives, from young adulthood to middle years are marked by intensity. He writes, “The Lucky Generation are bemused by their Boomer offspring’s solemn commitment to navel-gazing, to self analysis and to the relentless pursuit of personal gratification.”
Yes. This generation are into self analysis. Which is why they are the one generation most open to considering and acting on generational theory.
Men have had to grapple with the effects of the feminist movement. Men who grew up with Dad as the ‘head of the house’ and breadwinner have faced a revolution, a loss of control. At the same time, the emerging ‘rules of engagement’ have not been clear for men. Should they explore their ‘feminine side’? Or rediscover the masculine in new ways? It’s not clear. But in the process of gender redefinition, men have learned how to be more actively involved with their children.
Women have had the opportunity to set their own agenda, taking on choices that are more stimulating and interesting than those perceived to be experienced by the Lucky Generation women. A fascinating insight: the realisation in hindsight that equal rights does not mean that all of those rights have to be exercised at once. The tensions between career aspirations and maternal aspirations are explored in depth by Mackay.
<Saying ‘No’ to Religion
<"The Boomers might turn out to have been the last generation of Australians to attend Christian Sunday Schools in large numbers." I've met a few from the Lucky Generation who struggle to accept this. However it is clear that the Baby Boomers as adults have stayed away from conventional religion and are not likely to return to it in droves. They're hooked by materialism.
Mackay describes the belief that solid values came from stable family life, supported by a steady income from a reliable supply of work. Add to this belief the perspectives of Freud and Einstein and we end up with the belief that all answers to our questions are within us, and that everything is relative.
Baby Boomer Gods
Sex
Mackay sums up his section on Baby Boomer sexual attitudes with the stunning sentence:
“Impatient to pair off at an early age, they have been obsessed with pairing off (either in fact or in fantasy) ever since.
Travel
Boomers travel the world discovering themselves in cross-cultural experience.
Food
This generation are proud of their exposure to a huge range of ethnic foods. Coffee is named as ‘heavily symbolic’. And not just any coffee. Expresso coffee in its many forms.
Information
“They consume information as voraciously as they have previously consumed Thai food, experiential holidays, sexual partners or cars”.
Personal Growth
This movement in the 1970s provided a psychological culture of ‘do your own thing’, leaving a legacy of self-centredness. Newly ‘aware’ Boomers leave their spouses to ‘discover themselves’. Mackay admits that many found help in personal-growth courses but remains scathing.
Emotional Hazards of Over-Parenting
Mackay concludes his section on the Stress Generation by exploring their parenting of the next generation.
It’s hard to say if Mackay’s Boomer focus groups were more self-critical than the others, or if Mackay is allowing his generational bias to seep through. The other possibility is that Boomers present different issues when talking to an older researcher. It would be fascinating to conduct some testing on the impact of a researcher’s age on any focus group.
Either way, it is clear that Mackay’s chapter on the Boomers is not kind. He has these people pining for the lost values of their parents but revelling in their materialist lifestyle.
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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
This afternoon I’ve had a chance to connect up with the wider blogging community. The rest of the family are at work (daughter), at play (son) and at a Tupperware party (wife & daughter).
Darren Rowse, at Living Room in Melbourne, talks about the BYO worship night held this last week, on the theme of ‘home’. Living Room look as though they’re very similar to the approach we take at Pacific Parks.
“We are a small group of people seeking to live life to the full and to join Jesus in his life giving process in the inner north of Melbourne. We call ourselves Living Room because we want to be a life giving space where people connect with the teachings of Jesus in natural and culturally relevant ways.
We have no building or formal Sunday service but we’re working at growing in our relationship with Jesus, building community and living out our faith in practical ways in our local area.
We try to keep things pretty simple when it comes to life, faith and how we work as a group and we hope that this is reflected in this site which we hope gives you a quick glimpse of who we are and how we run.”
I like it. The idea of meeting in a natural environment where conversation flows. It’s the kind of environment in which Matthew would have hosted his party for Jesus. It’s the kind of environment in which Jesus met with Simon the Pharisee and had his feet ‘annointed’ by one of the local women.
When I was working at Robina Surfers Paradise Uniting I tried to introduce the living room feel into the Sunday night worship experience. We put a leather couch up the front each night, and had our interviews on that couch. A bit like the feel provided by chat shows on television.
I learnt from that setting however that people who go to churches generally expect an up-front ‘behind the lecturn’ experience. People go to cafes and living rooms for a ’sitting on the couch informal conversation’ experience.
Just a couple of weeks ago I was talking to Yvonne McRostie, a Uniting Church minister in Ashgrove, Brisbane, whose new Christian community has taken the same name “Living Room”. Yep - she’s using the same name as the Melbourne group and working on the same concept. Isn’t it great when Baptist and Uniting networks can borrow from one another!
Darren Rowse, of the Living Room, is also a professional blogger. By that I mean he develops blogs and makes them pay for his time by contracting space to advertisers.
The Living Room has a few of Darren’s blogs connected to it:
Digital Photography Blog (updated daily)
Athens Olympics Blog (finished September 2004)
Printers Blog (last posts were December 28, 2004)
Camera Phones (updated daily)
ProBlogger (daily tips for people engaging with professional blogging)
Also in the family is the unofficial Australian Idol fan blog. Darren Wright, fellow youth worker, is the prolific writer on this site though I notice that he’s not promising any commentary on the X Factor this year.
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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
Just caught up on the news that Stanley Grenz has died. At Paul Fromont’s “Prodigal Kiwi” blog:
What a shock. Stanley would have been 55 this year.
Stanley Grenz is known for his contribution to a progressive Evangelical engagement with postmodernity in the United States.
Stanley Grenz books
Primer on Postmodernism, 1996. The first chapter gives us the beautiful metaphor for modernism and postmodernism - Star Trek as a series. The first series - boldness and certainty. The second series - humility, subtlety and uncertainty. It’s on the list for this research blog.
Theology for the Community of God, 2000. An exploration of the challenges of doing theology, drawing on a wide range of traditions. I’ll be exploring this at some point at God Post.
Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era, 2000. Here Stanley’s paving the way for a more ‘generous orthodoxy’ in which Christians can get over the polarisation between Evangelical and Liberal.
Rediscovering the Triune God, 2004. An exploration of trinitarian theology - forming the basis for a relational approach to Christian faith.
I’m glad Stanley managed to publish so much of his thinking. I’m sad that I won’t get the chance to meet him in person, or dialogue with him online, or see his ongoing development of theology.
The official site of Stanley Grenz is at http://www.stanleyjgrenz.com/
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Sunday, March 20th, 2005
Just caught up on the news that Stanley Grenz died on March 13, (2005).
Stanley Grenz is known for his contribution to a progressive Evangelical engagement with postmodernity in the United States.
A Selection of Stanley Grenz books
Primer on Postmodernism, 1996. The first chapter gives us the beautiful metaphor for modernism and postmodernism - Star Trek as a series. The first series - boldness and certainty. The second series - humility, subtlety and uncertainty. It’s on the list for my research blog at Generations in Conversation.
Theology for the Community of God, 2000. An exploration of the challenges of doing theology, drawing on a wide range of traditions. I’ll be exploring this at some point at God Post.
Renewing the Center: Evangelical Theology in a Post-Theological Era, 2000. Here Stanley’s paving the way for a more ‘generous orthodoxy’ in which Christians can get over the polarisation between Evangelical and Liberal.
Rediscovering the Triune God, 2004. An exploration of trinitarian theology - forming the basis for a relational approach to Christian faith.
I’m glad Stanley managed to publish so much of his thinking. I’m sad that I won’t get the chance to meet him in person, or dialogue with him online, or see his ongoing development of theology.
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Saturday, March 19th, 2005
Happy is the man who doesn’t give in and do wrong when he is tempted, for afterwards he will get as his reward the crown of life that God has promised those who love him.
James 1:12
My tempations have been my masters in divinity.
Martin Luther
Rick’s first key sentence for the day:
“God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you’re tempted to express the exact opposite quality.”
I can relate to that. The times I’ve grown in patience are times with kids who wouldn’t cooperate with parental guidance. The times I’ve grown in love are times when I’ve had to put aside my own needs - and been tempted to just live for myself. The times I’ve grown in self control are when I’ve been tempted to live without perameters of conscience.
How Temptation Works?
Rick gives us Satan’s predictable four-point pattern of temptation, based on the story of Adam and Eve. Desire, Doubt, Deceipt, Disobedience. Hey I didn’t realise that Satan was a modernist stickler for numbered plans of action, with each step starting with D in the English language.
Desire. Satan identifies a desire inside of you.
Doubt. Satan tries to get you to doubt what God has said about the sin.
Deceipt. Satan deceives us into believing his replacement of God’s word.
Disobedience. We finally act on the sin we’ve been toying with.
Some cynicism aside, there is a recognisable pattern here - recognisable because it plays over and over again as we find ourselves acting against our better judgment. Action starts from within, not from some outside force. The doubt and deceipt parts of this scheme are faced by addicts of all sorts as they struggle with the temptation to re-engage with their addiction.
I’m not a person who looks for the work of the devil every time something bad happens, or every time some one is tempted. We don’t need any supernatural intervention for us to succumb to destructive patterns of thinking or behaviour. However I believe there are times when it appears that Satan attempts to twist our perception of events.
I was preparing for a worship service last year when I noticed that key people in the church were starting to get gnarly. One woman, normally with a heart of gold, comes in angry and cynical. It turns out she’d offered to help a guy on the street and he’d responded by attempting to grab her bag. Another key leader walks in cursing and threatening to shoot homeless people. I immediately gathered these people together and prayed with them, helping them clearly resist the temptation to succumb to fear and hostility. We called on the power of God to overcome evil.
Rick Warren’s Three Tips on Overcoming Temptation
1. Refuse to be intimidated.
Martin Luther reputedly said, “You cannot keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair”. Just as I wrote this sentence, a giant moth flew in through the door. And out again. That’s how it is sometimes with desire. You can’t predict when it will appear.
I’m not with Rick on his explanation of the origin of evil thoughts. He recommends that readers not condemn themselves when they have bizarre or evil thoughts - they come from Satan he says. I think that assigning blame to Satan leads us to a naievity about our own emotional complexity. Hurts and hopes are part of being human. The reality we face is that our hopes and hurts can become distorted and lead us to destructive behaviour.
It is clear, reading through the Bible and exploring the lives of Jesus-followers, that we are all complicated beings capable of the best and the worst of thought and behaviour. Even in the middle of noble gestures and intimate moments with God we can succumb to arrogance!
2. Recognise your pattern of temptation and be prepared for it.
Good move. Jerry Jenkins wrote a book called “Hedges: Loving Your Marriage Enough to Protect It” in which he reminds us of the need to be realistic about situations in which temptation is harder to beat. As a speaker and workshop leader on the road I found this very helpful in the area of marital faithfulness. The same principles apply to other areas of temptation such as time waste, over spending, and distraction from important relationships and tasks.
3. Request God’s Help
Rick refers to the ‘microwave prayer’ - the prayer that goes to God in times of trouble, 24 hours a day. It’s quick and to the point - “Help”. The one word prayer. It’s a prayer I’ve prayed often. It’s short for “give me strength”, “guide my thoughts”, “lead me in my actions toward others”, “help me find the words needed for this situation”, “fill me with your love”, “keep me from going over the edge”.
Final question for the day:
What Christ-like character quality can I develop by defeating the most common temptation I face?
I’ll have to think about that…
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