So what church are you in?
Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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From: "Jonathan Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lance Muir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: April 25, 2005 08:36
Subject: Caroline's Blog April 24
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> April 24, 2005
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> the church of 80% sincerity
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> The Church of 80% Sincerity was founded by David Roche because we get it
> right only about 80% of the time. As Roche explains, 80% is as good as
> it gets and we have to accept that. We understand 80% of the truth we
> encounter, believe about 80% of it, act according to our beliefs 80% of
> the time.
>
> I didn't think much of the church when I first read about it but lately,
> I'm starting to think that David Roche is both prophetic and profound
> which is evangelical parlance for 'he's right!'
>
> I've never liked John Calvin because of Calvinism and TULIP. My pastor
> once answered a question I had with an extended quote from John Calvin
> and I dismissed the whole explanation summarily because I did not like
> the man. My pastor was shocked because, to him, Calvin was a brilliant
> theologian and the answer he gave me was the best one he had.
>
> Now that I know about the Church of 80% Sincerity, I can appreciate
> Calvin. He was wrong about atonement being limited because Christ Jesus
> died for the sins of all people. But he was right about God's
> unconditional election and irresistible grace meeting us in our total
> depravity and about God preserving us against everything. Calvin should
> not have burnt all those people at the stake for disagreeing with him
> but I like him a whole lot better because of the grace I found in the
> Church of 80% Sincerity.
>
> Martin Luther was a great reformer who brought an end to certain church
> excesses and abuses. He also rediscovered the doctrine that salvation is
> by grace alone through faith. For a man who believed so much in grace,
> in unmerited favour, he should not have been so virulently anti-semitic.
> I'm convinced his attitude affected the Lutheran church and Germany. He
> would fit in perfectly at the Church of 80% Sincerity.
>
> Martin Luther King was also a great reformer, a hero of our times, but
> he cheated on his wife and plagiarized some people. He had a dream that
> he laboured into reality because he believed in the greatness of God,
> the rightness of love and that justice will prevail. I do not judge him
> by the colour of his skin or by the content of his character. He belongs
> in the Church of 80% Sincerity. So would Mahatma Gandhi, another
> reformer who followed the way of love and non-violence. He rejected
> Christianity and he drank urine but, at the Church of 80% Sincerity, no
> one would look at him funny.
>
> N.T. Wright is one of our best living theologian but at a series of
> lectures at Leicestershire (July 14-16, 2004), he said about a third of
> what he teaches is probably false; the only problem is that he didn't
> now which third. Now, if he had 80% truth in his theology and if he
> could only communicate that 80% of the time, that means we would receive
> 64% or approximately two-thirds truth when we listen to him. N.T. Wright
> must be a secret member of the Church of 80% Sincerity.
>
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