Most church members are so stuffed with pre-digested denominational theology that they can\u2019t even taste it.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to chew it, so they swallow it, and then regurgitate it further predigested for the next new member, thereby meeting the qualifications for approval by those who predigested it for them, and keeping them malnourished spiritual babies.<\/p>\n
Now if you found that paragraph unnecessarily complex, you should try reading the theology books written for theology students.\u00a0 I remember.\u00a0 But their show goes on.<\/p>\n
I can laugh about that now, personally.\u00a0 But sadly, the typical theology student entering seminary, steps on a conveyor belt that drops him off in a church four years later, equipped to do what he was taught; but he really doesn\u2019t know what happened to him.\u00a0 (that analogy compliments of my nephew—a pastor)<\/p>\n
I think of Martin Luther and others who wanted the Bible available to the common people in their language.\u00a0 They got run out of town, and some even got run out of this world, because the idea threatened the \u201cPDD\u201d degree holders (Doctor of Pre-Digestion).<\/p>\n
Someday I\u2019ll write on SIBA—SIMPLE BASICS REVOLUTIONIZE THEOLOGY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most church members are so stuffed with pre-digested denominational theology that they can\u2019t even taste it.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have to chew it, so they swallow it, and then regurgitate it further predigested for the next new member, thereby meeting the qualifications for approval by those who predigested it for them, and keeping them malnourished spiritual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-inspire_lifter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}