With you is my contention O Priest

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With you is my contention O Priest
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Hosea 4
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My people perish for lack of knowledge

• Idolatry
• The role of the religious authority
• To enable life
• The church has manifestly failed
• Theological renewal is required
• Overcoming priestly idolatries

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Control

• The castle and the sun
• Control is always driven by fear
• a lack of faith
• Wood in a vice
• The Spanish Inquisition

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Ego

• Luther Prophecy has costs
• Ego confused with conscience
• Protestantism has become self-indulgence
• I am the master of my world
• I worship the world
• The 10,000 things

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Erastianism

• Christendom
• The church under the control of the state
• Be subject to the higher powers
• Eg civic service!
• Selling out souls for a quiet life
• Bush the US is the light shining in the world

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Academy

• Theology is not an academic subject
• Swallowing the agenda of modernism
• The worship of science (method)
• Includes fundamentalism as best example
• Drives liberalism

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Worldliness 1

• Bread and circuses

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Worldliness 2

• Sex

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Worldliness 3

• Multiculturalism
• Being nice

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Rampant heresies

• Donatism
• pure church

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Rampant heresies 2

• Docetism
• Allows for a quieter life

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Rampant heresies 3

• Dispensationalism
• the doctrines of men
• dont take them out of the world

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The shape of wrath

• Numbers
• Finance
• Scandal

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Scandal
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Are none exempt?
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Where do we go from here?

• Read scripture
• Not just little pieces
• Listen to the fathers
• Open your eyes to the world
• (this is very traditional Anglicanism)

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Living in the Kingdom

• And what does the Lord require of you?
• To do justice
• To love kindness
• To walk humbly before your God
• A community saturated with God

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Concentrate on Christ

• This is the new covenant
• A people without understanding shall come to ruin