Here's Brian McLaren, speaking with the wisdom I've come to expect from him.
*X-posted at The Alex and Ben Show*
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The Worship Industry
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My Journey So Far
- Leslie Foster
- Currently Nomadic in Hollywood, California, United States
- Leslie Foster was born in Singapore and spent his childhood in Bandung, Indonesia; Berrien Springs, Michigan; and Silang, Philippines. His love for all things artistic and creative eventually led him to the film program at Southern Adventist University, but not before he had picked up a minor in biology and another major in International Studies (German). He recently finished up his degrees at Southern, managing to work on quite a few student films (including a few of his own) and the feature "Secret of the Cave" along the way. He is currently living in LA. He dreams of being part of a nomadic community of artists.
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This one also really reverberated with me. I see an increase of consumer worship in the SDA YA culture (twenty years after the fact....duh).
Leslie, I have a request/question off the topic. Any chance of getting a hold of you?
mschwantes@yahoo.com
Thanks.
In the video, worship of some sorts was being compared to food of some sorts.
I had actually been paralleling the same two things during the drive down to WW. It was Sabbath, but we’d left early so hadn’t gone to church. We were dressed casually and comfortably and had been stopping at gas stations and fast food places. It didn’t feel right for being the Sabbath; I was craving something spiritual.
That craving was never really satisfied during that long drive but the thoughts did occur to me that a lot of so-called spiritual/worshipful activities (I was thinking specifically of some sermons/talks and devotional/story type things.) share a lot of characteristics with ready-made and fast food: pre-prepared by somebody else, easy, single-serving sized, instant, easily digestible, effortless, mass-prepared, untailored, temporarily-satisfying, and oft-disposable.
I haven’t really concluded anything from those thoughts yet. But those were my thoughts anyway.
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