Sublime

The second element of efficacy is elusiveness.

But it’s much less so for persons seeking a good life, and communities of faith seeking the communion of the Holy Spirit through the crucified Christ felt as the shalom of God the Father.

because we’ve fused faith with youthfulness, what legitimizes faith is not experiences of divine action discerned through the wisdom of thought and practice but the excitement of disruption.

The church’s use of the slow wisdom of the past seems completely out of place in the compression of the present and the moral pursuit of identity innovation.

the youthful sought a spirituality without divine action (a transcendence without a personal divine reality).

When there is little direct connection to divine action, and no vision for something bigger, the pastor is left wondering

The age of authenticity ended the strict days of duty by shifting the imagination of what makes a life good.

It was boboism that radically changed our conception of faith formation, allowing youthfulness to mutate the transcendent call of Jesus to follow into a therapeutic pursuit of the self without divine action.

Divine action was no longer bound in any thing, not even doctrine or the sermon, maybe not even in the obedient behavior of the listener.