Looks like our favorite watchdoggie is back on the wagon. That’s right folks! Ingrid has made the promise

I decided to gradually republish salvageable posts from the past that are of some informational value. …In addition, I will be occasionally adding current news stories minus public comment for the sole purpose of giving out information.

Looks like she missed the old doghouse. However, there were some promising and encouraging words within her explanation post.

The dead orthodoxy and dryness and lifeless textualism in conservative churches is actually propelling the popularity of the false churches. A return to tradition is not the answer. What is needed is a return to a passionate love for our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Only in the Vine, in true fellowship with the Lord, will real life exist. I want to be in the Vine, friends. How about you? Time is short, and how we spend it is desperately important.

for one Ingrid, we agree. Hopefully we can live in the vine together.

This article from CRN is contradictory in its very core. If God has already arrainged the entire script in history without any participation from man, then why all the fuss? The editor quotes: 

“Our God is not a God of paradox. That is not looking at the whole text, there is much more to it than that. God did not simply get to read the whole plan of history like a script. He WROTE the script. He is not merely aware of the things to come, they are the things to come only because He ordained and allowed every one of them to be completed. Included in those events are the miraculous regenerations of men’s souls.”

* Then why is God angry through you, is He angry about what He Himself has ordained?

* Then are your energies working against what God has ordained and allowed?

* Then why do you not rejoice in the falling away, it is in the script God wrote?

* Then is our evangelism without any urgency because it is all scripted?

* Then are all the postings about the modern church just mockings of God’s script?

And so the incongruity of the so called paradox continues to be baffling. If God scripted it all then why all the hand wringing and for what purpose is the criticism of the parts of God’s script that seem distasteful? Surely no one would want to criticize and castigate any part of God’s plan, and if indeed God is scripting it all then the ones who believe that should rejoice in all of it. The heresy, the worldly methods, the pragmatism, the moral failures, the emergent church, and the entire panorama of what is now taking place in the evangelical world is all part of God’s sovereign scripting. Rejoice in it all, it’s all part of God’s script, there is no free will only God’s scripted play being unfolded before our eyes.

None of us should criticize what God is doing…should we?

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