Demolishing What?
June 16, 20025
Just a couple of things I’d like to say regarding the Christian Deconstruction movement:.
Ideas can be random and in that sense, certainly are not the firmest base to build on. They might not be the most promising path to pursue. Ideas are simply that, passing notions. They must be weighed. Are they feathers blowing about? Are they heavy burdens? What are the prospects of my pursuing them?
A person needs to learn the nuts and bolts of discernment between what might be worthwhile and which might just be a waste of time. True from false hopes? Are they worth thinking about further or putting into a plan? Choosing correctly means the difference between building on sand or on bedrock, as it were. The question remains about how to tell the difference between what is truly beneficial and what has little or no potential.and what may even end in catastrophe.
Perhaps people considering God, Jesus, and the Bible for their lives should do all their evaluating of themselves and their “faith” before they decide whether or not to commit. Then, deconstruction — that is, apostasy — would not be seen as a viable “path of choice.”
Let me emphasize that when people have not followed Christ into a personal and dynamic relationship based on the Gospel of the grace of God, I think that, first and foremost, they probably don’t have any actual Bible faith to begin with! Deconstruction becomes a moot point. There is nothing really there to deconstruct. It’s just an idea, a passing notion…
What I think, in many cases, is their idea of Christianity is more of an insignificant part of their lives than an integral part of their lives.
Youthful choices of faith may be more faddish than fateful.
A person’s faith may have more to do with parental choices than their own.
Bible stories may have been learned by rote — just as in my experience — but without having any internalizing mechanism.
Those types of faith are rather shallow and dependent upon external rites and rituals rather than relationship.
Bible faith comes from an actual work of God through a person’s admission of guilt before God, a turning towards Jesus, seeking reconciliation with God, and a life of following the Bible’s teachings, learning about and drawing ever closer to walking alongside the friendship that is possible with Jesus.
Still and all, what remains is the fact that the most dangerous part of Christian Deconstruction, is the ensuing process for people choosing what they will use for their Faith Reconstruction!
From what authority, exactly, will a person select the building blocks of their new customized faith?
There’s a huge grab bag to plunge your hand into, for sure.
Whatever grabs you, I suppose…
But while you’re busy doing all that grabbing, what if you miss Jesus reaching out to grab you?
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. — John 3:16, New American Standard Bible (NASB).
