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Sick of blah, blah, blah

Posted on Saturday 25 November 2006 by Greg @ 11:10 am
Filed under: Rants

My five year old boy often says, “Daddy all you talk about is blah, blah, blah.” I don’t know what he actually means by this kooky little statement but it makes me laugh.

What doesn’t make me laugh are some of the blah, blah, blah and kooky little statements that are being batted around in many youth ministry circles today. In the name of intellectual freedom and postmodern openness some of the trash that is being peddled as truth in the youth ministry world of books, blogs, magazines and seminars astounds and confounds me. 

Left leaning sages think it is cool to disrupt the theological grid that has been delivered to us from our spiritual forefathers (aka “the disciples”) and serve us a heresy stew filled with chunks of mysticism, Gnosticism, open theism, universalism and more. These “ism” chunks are rank and rancid. They stink of Edenesque lies delivered with forked tongue and soup spoons every single time they intimate “Hath God said?” about some basic doctrine of God’s Word through undertones, overtones and outright statements.

So what’s a Christian to do? Spew the stew and take the steak. The meat of God’s word is much more tasty than the soup-du-jour of heretics. But even if it wasn’t we should choose the steak anyway. Why? Because God tells us to in Hebrews 5:14, “…solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” When we chew on the steak of God’s Word instead of sip on the stew of heretics we learn to discern. This brand of discernment is more and more necessary in this confusing world of have-it-your-way spirituality.

It’s time to put away the blah, blah, blah of philosophers who have forsaken the truth in exchange for a lie. The new kind of Christianity I want to live is the old one, the kind that preaches the truth in love, the kind that was sure of what it hoped for and certain of what it did not see, the kind that revolutionized the world from Jerusalem to Rome in about thirty years. 

As for my blah, blah, blah friends I challenge you put down your spoons, pick up your forks and follow Jesus.

 

Signed, Greg Stier

5 Comments for 'Sick of blah, blah, blah'

  1. On November 25, 2006 @ 9:35 pm dreamer08 said:
    • hey greg..it’s ironic that you say "pick up your forks and follow Jesus"…because this last weekend was Disciple Now for my youth group and our theme was "Fork in the Road"- Choose Jesus….and we did a skit on one of the nights about your Starbucks Faith that you talk about in your ministry mutiny book, 3 of my youth leaders went to the Youth Specialties conference in austin where you spoke and each received a copy of it….i felt that the skit was very effective considering how many of my own close friends live off of starbucks, so it really related to them…just wanted to let you know

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  2. On November 26, 2006 @ 10:34 am faith said:
    •               Greg! I love your son! He says the most thought-provoking things! I mean, a bunch of your blog posts are about what Jeremy said to you one day. I guess this particular topic that ur talking about is a little hard to understand for me. I guess the way I would interpret it is that we need to be straightforward when sharing our faith and not beat around the bush or compromise our faith. Keep at it Greg, you really help me grow!

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  3. On November 28, 2006 @ 9:37 am Scott Smyth said:
    • Finally!  Thank you so much for saying what has been on my heart and I am sure countless others.  Since when did God’s Word fall so short of what we need to have a relationship with Him that we have to go out and add to it bits and pieces of paganism?!  I think if we all take a close look at the other part of the Bible (the OT) we will see what happened each time God’s children did what we are doing now!  The Bible is fully sufficient for our lives.  Thank you God!

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  4. On November 28, 2006 @ 10:02 am kacy said:
    • greg, im kinda confused of what this is all about but i do undestand put down your spoon and pick up your fork and follow jesus amen 2 that! im so amased that Jeremy know so much i probley dont even know. i read some of the blogs that you have written  like the grocery store and he like share the gospel daddy and the spirit fingers wow and a five year old at that and it seems that he not one bit scared to share the gospel so in other words way to go jeremey and you to greg you have helped me learn alot not only from your books but your blogs too.                                        god bless                                          kacy

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  5. On November 28, 2006 @ 9:54 pm Becky said:
    • Greg-Hey there-Um that is a great illustration of taking up you cross and following Jesus.In church I sang this song in the chouir that went take up your cross follow Jesus,don’t be ashamed to say that you know him,count the cost take up your cross follow him.There are also some bible verses that go along with that.Mark 8:34 which says And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also he said unto them whosoever will come after me,let him deny himself,take up his cross and follow me.(this may not be totally worded right) Then the next verse talks about whosover shall lose his life for Jesus sake and the gospels shall save it.Yes I am some bible-orineted-music-freak.The fact of the matter is christians should be growing or bearing fruit "Spritually or knowledge in Christ".Grow Grow Grow,with no growth in the christian walk in makes it harder to have a relationship with God.~Becky~(Sorry if I sounded nerdy or preachy but I am in a christian school so I tend to preach.)

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