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by John MacArthur
Selfishness is one telltale sign of immaturity. Babies are completely self-centered. They scream if they don't get what they want when they want it. All they are aware of are their own needs and desires. They never say thanks for anything. They can't help others; they can't give anything. They can only receive.
And certainly there's nothing wrong with that when it occurs in the natural stage of infancy. But to see a child whose development is arrested so that he never gets beyond that stage of helpless selfishness—that is a tragedy.
And that is exactly the spiritual state of multitudes in the church today. They are utterly preoccupied with self. They want their own problems solved and their own comfort elevated. Their spiritual development is arrested, and they remain in a perpetual state of selfish helplessness. It is evidence of a tragic abnormality.
Arrested infancy, in turn, results in a lack of discernment. Just as a baby crawls along the floor, putting anything it finds in its mouth, spiritual babies don't know what is good for them and what isn't. Immaturity and failure to be discerning go together; they are virtually the same thing.
The tendency to stall in a state of immaturity also existed in New Testament times. Paul appealed to Christians repeatedly to grow up spiritually. In Ephesians 4:14-15, he wrote, "We are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ" (emphasis added).
How do we grow spiritually? By "speaking the truth in love" to one another. We grow under the truth. It is the same truth by which we are sanctified, conformed to the image of Christ, made to be mature spiritually (John 17:17, 19). As we absorb the truth of God's Word, we grow up and are built up. We might say accurately that the process of spiritual growth is a process of training for discernment.
Hebrews 5:12—6:1 underscores all this:
Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity.
Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity.
The writer of Hebrews was telling his readers, "You're babies. You've been around long enough to be teachers, but instead I have to feed you milk. I have to keep giving you elementary things. You can't take solid food. You're not accustomed to the rich things of the Word—and that is tragic."
Notice that in verse 14 he says discernment and maturity go hand in hand: "solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil." Knowing and understanding the Word of righteousness—taking in solid food—trains your senses to discern good and evil.
The word "senses" in that verse is not a reference to the feelings, emotions, or other subjective sensory mechanisms. The writer of this epistle is explicitly encouraging his readers to exercise their minds. Those who "because of practice have their senses trained to discern" are the wise, the understanding, people who thrive on the solid food of the Word of God. As we have seen from the beginning, discernment results from a carefully disciplined mind. Discernment is not a matter of feelings, nor is it a mystical gift. Notice from the wisdom literature of the Old Testament how closely discernment is linked with a seasoned, developed, biblically informed mind.
The path to discernment is the way of spiritual maturity. And the only means to spiritual maturity is mastery of the Word of God.
Most people are discerning about things that are important to them. People who regard a healthy diet as crucial watch carefully what they eat. They read the fine print on the package to see how many grams of fat it has and what percentage of the daily required nutrients it offers.
People who work with pesticides or dangerous chemicals must be very discerning. They study the procedures and the precautions very carefully to avoid any potentially lethal exposure.
People who make investments in the stock market usually practice discernment. They study the cryptic listings in the newspaper on the stock market and watch the ticker tape.
Lawyers are very discerning with contracts. They have to figure out the legal jargon and make sure they understand what they are signing.
People who undergo delicate surgery are usually very discerning. They try to find the doctor with the finest skills—or at least verify that he has plenty of experience in whatever procedure he will be doing.
I know lots of people who are very discerning sports enthusiasts. They watch a football game and can assess any offense, any defense, any play. They often feel they are more discerning than whoever is calling the actual plays. They study statistics and averages and take it all very seriously.
Did you realize those are essentially the same skills that are required in spiritual discernment? Careful thought, keen interest, thorough analysis, close observation—together with alertness, attentiveness, thoughtfulness, and above all, a love of truth. All of us have those skills to some degree, and we use them in whatever field of endeavor is important to us.
Yet what could be more important than spiritual discernment?
There is no valid explanation for why contemporary Christians are so undiscerning—but it reveals a spiritual apathy that is deadly evil.
Can the church regain her ability to be discerning? Only by growing up spiritually. That means confronting the spirit of a relativistic age and diligently applying ourselves to the unfailing Word of God. We cannot gain discernment overnight, or through a mystical experience. Understanding the problem is not the answer. Discernment will come only as we train our minds to be understanding in the truth of God's Word and learn to apply that truth skillfully to our lives.
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I am thankful to Dr. Macarthur for using his voice to speak discerningly about the YRR. In light of all the positives this movement appears to be headed (or has accomplished by the grace of God), It seems few are willing to carefully point some deficiencies this movement has in risk of being called "arrogant" or out of touch with how to do church in a postmodern culture.
With that said, I do have a question regarding an article ("The Merger of Calvinism with Worldliness") written in 2009 by Dr. Peter Master (Minister of London's Metropolitan Tabernacle - Spurgeon's church) in regard to how his analysis to the "Resolved Conference" is comparable to this series on the YRR.
Here are some excerpts from his Article:
"The new Calvinists constantly extol the Puritans, but they do not want to worship or live as they did. One of the vaunted new conferences is called Resolved, after Jonathan Edwards' famous youthful Resolutions (seventy searching undertakings). But the culture of this conference would unquestionably have met with the outright condemnation of that great theologian."
"Resolved is the brainchild of a member of Dr John MacArthur's pastoral staff, gathering thousands of young people annually, and featuring the usual mix of Calvinism and extreme charismatic-style worship. Young people are encouraged to feel the very same sensational nervous impact of loud rhythmic music on the body that they would experience in a large, worldly pop concert, complete with replicated lighting and atmosphere. At the same time they reflect on predestination and election. Worldly culture provides the bodily, emotional feelings, into which Christian thoughts are infused and floated. Biblical sentiments are harnessed to carnal entertainment. (Pictures of this conference on their website betray the totally worldly, showbusiness atmosphere created by the organisers."
"You cannot have Puritan soteriology without Puritan sanctification. You should not entice people to Calvinistic (or any) preaching by using worldly bait. We hope that young people in this movement will grasp the implications of the doctrines better than their teachers, and come away from the compromises. But there is a looming disaster in promoting this new form of Calvinism."
I guess my question is (I also seen this from another blog) does the "Resolved Conference" promote worldliness or some of the pragmatic trends John is speaking of in this series of post? and or
How do you discern the difference?
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#1 Eugene Cabrera
I guess my question is (I also seen this from another blog) does the "Resolved Conference" promote worldliness or some of the pragmatic trends John is speaking of in this series of post? and or How do you discern the difference?
I think you are hitting the nail right on with your questions. Are the churches promoting worldliness? I can say without a doubt – yes or maybe :-) At least, some are.
The fruits produced are the only way we can discern the results – right?
But who is to blame? Is it the Church or the individual Christians? I for sure know my responsibility to help my brother.
I had an incidence last week, when I visited an old Christian friend I have known for many years. He has two children, now in their early twenties. His daughter has just moved out to live with her boyfriend, and his son just began smoking recently. Both of them have been to Bible school. I was grieved in my heart, so of course we talked about it, and the answer was as always – Christian liberty. They want to show the world, that Christianity is liberty and embrace sinners.
Very sad, isn't it?
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Thank you, John MacArthur, for always pointing us back to the Word of God. Time after time you attempt to scoop us out of our Pop Culture and get us beyond fads. Thank you for reminding us just how selfish we are as a culture....It's so obvious. I am a wretched, selfish man who has never had a thought TOTALLY outside of myself and my own motives and desires.
Lord, put in us a desire to follow You and to have our focus be on Holiness and a true desire to love our fellow man. To pick him up when we see him struggling. To think outside of ourselves and to be a clear vessel for your love.
At the time Peter Masters wrote the article you quoted, someone took great issue with his reference to "extreme charismatic-style worship". There is simply no way that the worship at Resolved can be described as that. And if Masters can't get something as simple as that correct, are the rest of his allegations valid?
Masters basically has a big hang-up about contemporary music, and he regards all of it as worldly and unbiblical. I think this is much too simplistic an analysis. His views are far removed from the mainstream of evangelicalism and I wouldn't take much notice of him.
As I said on another previous article, exactly what is "wordly" and what isn't is a highly subjective question. I agree with Rudi that the fruit is what matters.
#2 Rudi Jensen
I grew up in a very conservative/traditional evangelical church, and there were situations worse than the ones you describe with both young and old members. You can't link them to any particular style of church, and I'd want to see some detailed statistics before suggesting that they are more prevalent in any particular group.
Let me say something about smoking, one of the things you mentioned. Why is it wrong? We'd normally say because your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and smoking damages your body. Fine. But being overweight is also very bad for your health. And how many pastors in the US tell their congregations that eating too much and exercising too little is a sin? Young people are very sensitive to this sort of hypocrisy and tend to rebel against it. I'm not saying this was the situation with your friend, but the church as a whole tends to be very selective about what preaches against.
Great comment, David. I agree with your assessment of Peter Masters' article.
This description of the Resolved Conference by Masters made me smile: "Young people are encouraged to feel the very same sensational nervous impact of loud rhythmic music on the body that they would experience in a large, worldly pop concert, complete with replicated lighting and atmosphere."
The brother who discipled me 30 years ago, gave me a very practical advise. Every day to stand before the crusified Lord. The day you can look Him in His eyes and not feel shame, that will be the day you lost your first love.
I'm not comparing proper behavior to the world, but what I owe Him in love.
Somewhere we have gotten hooked on the notion that all things old are good, and all things new are bad. The same spark of genius that wrote "How Great Thou Art" is alive today in some, but "not all", contemporary pieces of music. I love the old standards, and am a total traditionalist, as are many in my church, and we do sing the old hymns. We have our own small orchestra, which many of the youth from our Christian school participate in and some adult musicians from the congregation also contribute.
Go to You Tube and pull up MercyMe and listen to "I can Only Imagine." I would give the lyrics but don't know if I can. But the words inspire awe and worship for our great God and Savior. I can handle a few of these contemporary songs, if they are well orchestrated and well written.
P.S. You're a treasure Rudi. What you are doing as far as transcribing JM's sermons is such a wonderful thing. God bless you!
#4 David
Thank you for your response, I don't necessarily agree with Dr. Masters but I ask these questions because the music at Resolved is obviously different from what is played at Grace Community Church. Why would this be so? Is music at Resolved appropriate for that generation and not at Grace? That seems inconsistent. It seems that the worship (worship referring to style of music) at Resolved is contexualized in order to be relevant to a younger generation. I understand that styles change as culture does, and that the content of the message (Word of God - Doctrine) should not - but is that not the same argument that the YRR uses?
I am 33 and was saved over 10 yrs ago from the 2Pac's, Snoop Dog's, Too Short (rap music) and now I love hymns (and other Christian music). Talk about a miracle, I went from 2pac to a Mighty Fortress is our God. For the last 10 years I had no taste for rap music but now all of a sudden there are artist who rap with solid Doctrine in their songs. I like the music and enjoy the content, but I keep asking myself does their message (style) alienate other people even if they rap truth. The beat of the songs also bring me back to how I use to feel when listening to my music choice of the past. While their seems to be a "Reformed Rap movement" ( alot of positive things happening. They were also invited to speak at the Master's College), I am trying to discern how this movement will fair out in the future and if it's edifying and pleasing to my Lord.
Is there much difference from this Reformed Rap movement then the YRR addressed in these post?
"How do we grow spiritually? By "speaking the truth in love" to one another. We grow under the truth. It is the same truth by which we are sanctified, conformed to the image of Christ, made to be mature spiritually (John 17:17, 19). As we absorb the truth of God's Word, we grow up and are built up. We might say accurately that the process of spiritual growth is a process of training for discernment." I can think of no better way to grow than one on one discipleship whereby a more mature believer comes alongside a weaker one and teaches him the tenants of the faith. This is sorely lacking because it requires selflessness and selfishness must be repented of.
Whoever wrote in the Editor's Note already created a barrier to MacArthur's blog by using the term "your parents." I thought that was pretty ridiculous.
So, the YRR have to deal with their parents being insulted while the parents of GCC are safe n sound? Another unnecessary separation. Could have just used the term "our parents" or the "older generation" or something.
Apart from that, MacArthur's the bomb-diggity, and it's a great article.
I'd like to reiterate the question about the Resolve Conference. Not to critique, but with as much genuineness I can muster typing on a blog. I watched Dr. MacArthur's sermon from the conference about what to look for in a church via GCC's website and was so encouraged by the message. I'm dealing with some very similar topics in my own church, but I'll get to that later. I listened to other sermons as well with equal encouragement. I was browsing some of the other videos from the conference when I played on with a guy name Dustin (from GCC I believe) and he was introducing a rap singer. It seemed like the tone completely changed. I was shocked to see someone wrapping in the same conference as these great sermons. I really felt like I'd been punched in the gut. Please don't think I'm sensationalizing this myself, it was not that I thought "how could they?", I really thought, "have I been too harsh in my thinking".
Enter, MY church. The average age at my church is middle aged, but what I'm thinking now is more babe like, ...spiritually. They gather in droves for the latest music event or Christian entertainment but when I suggest bible conferences or meetings to focus on the study of scripture they have no interest.
I don't intent to focus on music for music sake here, it's more about the motivation behind it. One lady in my church said she likes our church because she can wear jeans and be comfortable. Am I wrong for encouraging her to be more concerned for the preaching and exalting God than her own comfort. I read Romans 1:16 in a bible study before we left for a mission trip to encourage them to not be ashamed of presenting the gospel during an event we call a block party to get as many people to come as possible. I told them we have to take time to preach to these people and I was told "oh that will drive them away".
How are these things related? Is there really such a thing and Christian rap, Christian comedians, and contemporary Christianity? And what is the A.B.C.'s of salvation? Is that really an effective way to present the gospel?
Forgive me if I seem harsh, I've been struggling with these questions for some time now. I'm praying for correction as much as direction.
Thank you Dr. MacArthur for a very important subject to my own heart and clearly many others. You and the staff at GTY and GCC are among my hero's of the faith.
#5 Tommy Clayton
I'm glad you found my remarks helpful.
#8 Eugene Cabrera
Reading JM's previous article - Grow Up Advice for YRRs (part 2) - I think his concern, which I share, is primarily with the way a significant part of the YRR movement seems obsessed with wanting to be "trendy" and following the fads of youth culture. I see that as a different thing to, for example, using a different style of music in meetings designed for the college generation.
I can give an example from my current church, but note that this is just for illustration and not to say that we are perfect.
By God's grace and thanks to the hard work of our gifted youth pastor, my church has a large number of teenage believers, some from non-church backgrounds. A few years ago, we felt that the best way to develop this work was to create a specific sunday evening congregation for them. Their style of service is different, and, yes, the music isn't the same as our regular church music. That, to my mind, is contextualisation, and numbers have continued to grow. (And by the way, many of these kids also attend the normal service as well).
But we're not constantly looking to be "hip", our youth pastor doesn't worry about whether he's wearing the right clothes, and we don't copy the ways of the world to "impact the culture".
I think that's the difference. It can seem a bit subtle at times, but hopefully will become clearer as JM writes more. And I'm sure others will correct me if I've got the wrong idea.
I'm not familiar with "reformed rap" so can't comment there.
Great post! I am quasi-YRR. I'm 32, married with a 2-year-old son and one in the oven. I guess I'm not TR (Totally Reformed) because my eschatology and ecclesiology mirrors that of Dr. MacArthur, but I definitely affirm the doctrines of grace, reformed theology, and the zeal of the YRR movement.
I have attended 3 of the Resolved conferences and it is a modern wonder that young people are willing to drive down to the middle of the desert during the summer to hear hours upon hours of biblical preaching. It is a great encouragement.
As far as the music goes, I see it as primarily a generational difference. I think the same kind of grievances were brought by "our" grandparents' generation about our parents. The content of the worship music is theologically sound and style is definitely more contemporary. But I'm guessing that in 25 years or so, that same style of music will be considered archaic (to some degree) and maybe even old fashioned. The "charismatic" aspect could only be described as such from an external point of view. And judging from Masters' comments, pics from the web seems to be his primary (or should I say "secondary") source of info. But it is very interesting to read his comments. It just reminds me of my own tendency to have strong opinions about things I know little about.
So in that regard I think we need to give Masters the benefit of the doubt. His intention is to strive to be "biblical" in his understanding of musical worship. There seems to be a language problem today of the term "biblical." For most it is interchangeable with their own convictions (that is true in my case). Others are biblical in so far as much as they agree with me (instead of the objective word). And so this is why I think Dr. MacArthur's comments about discernment are so keen and fitting for this discussion.
I love to hear wisdom from my elders, but the test for me is "can I listen from across the ocean?" =)
#12 David
Hi David thanks again for your response. You are right, it can be subtle. Contextualization will always happen, it's just trying to discern how to be faithful to Biblical principles without compromising in your ministry methodology.
I also agree with your statement that the YRR is focused on trendiness. That is part of their "ministry methodology" to contextualize culture with the gospel. I don't agree with trendiness for the sake of trendiness, but rather the primary focus ought to be worship. Individuals who are focused on worshipping God every moment of there lives will naturally be "missional" as the overflow of their lives will reflect the Savior in the normal context of their community. Trendiness is irrelevant, men and women who are living holy lives are the "fragrance of life" to those who believe - that transcends culture and every generation.
In regard to your church, praise God for the work that he is doing. I am not one to speak with authority on this issue and also am willing to be corrected, but has including a evening service for your youth margnilazed your church. In essence your saying that we are going to devote an entire service to cater to a specific group of people in our church ( I believe Dr. Macarthur built his methodology of ministry focusing on parents over youth). The emphasis is shifted to "trendiness" in worship style over worship that transcends trendiness. I don't think it would be an issue if you included the same style of music worship in both services, but by having different "styles" of worship you are "subtley" communicating to your youth style matters - because you marginalize a specific style in one service over another. I believe this can subltely teach youth to be indifferent to the older generation and teach them to seek style over substance (or trendiness over transcendant worship) - which will spell disaster in their future constructing of their ministry philosophies.
Furthermore, this is exactly what the YRR is doing. In their minds they are being faithful to sound doctrine, but their methodology is marginalizing other generations (older "not hip") and communicating to their constituents that style and trendiness transcends holy and righteous living (worship).
This I believe is a concern that Dr. Macarthur has. This movement may be Reformed in their theology, but is acting pragmatic in their methodology (this spelled disaster for previous generations as he mentioned). If you believe in the Sovereignity of God (Biblical principle), then your ministry methodology should reflect it. Just be faithful preaching to sound doctrine, loving God & others, and the Lord will add to the church - it's pretty much that simple. It's not so simple when your trying to contextualize these truths to your culture without compromising in some way.
There is a model found throughout Scripture that God uses to which the young need to take special note of. That pattern/model is to always honor the elderly. To honor our father and mother (Deut 5:16), to honor the aged (Lev 19:32), to honor those that have rule over you (Hbr 13:7), and to honor the (elders) who labor in the word and doctrine (1 Ti 5:17), these elders may be, and are often times young, but they have gained credibility by laboring in the Word.
This model in Scripture, is to cause us to always reflect back to the wisdom that has gone before; what has proven to be tried and true; what has been gleaned through the ages as worthy of honor and respect. Which is to say, that wisdom has often times been forged upon the anvil of hard knocks, under the pressure of life's austere privations and sufferings. Wisdom is also discerning what is right from wrong, in an age where evil is called good, and where all things currently in fashion feed our overwhelming desires to remain youthful. But youth is fleeting, as are the fads that typify it. This kind of wisdom, is something that no amount of green and wet behind the ears can come close to emulating.
Men, who are either elderly, or who are young, but have gained great wisdom by laboring in the Word, have earned the God-given right to declare what is an acceptable practice of worship in God's house. Most have seen fads in music and fashion come and go, they are ephemeral, they are here today and gone tomorrow (to use a pretty hackneyed expression). This earning of ones stripes should naturally preclude all youths, who are still under parental, church elders and Christ's authority, from setting any and all agendas the church deems appropriate. I would not expect a 13 year old to tell their pastor what books of the Bible he should be preaching from. I do not expect a 13 year old to set the music agenda, either.
Finally, we attend church as a family. And within that family structure, there are many authority figures we all are to submit to (children to their parents, wives to their husbands, both male and female to their elders, and above all, everyone submits to Christ). Those elderly members, of Christ's family, who have made a well-worn path, along a pretty hard and rocky road, need our respect and honor and have the right of precedence over others, including a youth's choice of music (currently on topic). "Authority figures" (pastors and elders) rule in God's house, NOT the **predilections** of our young, which soon to, will pass, and become yesterdays news. The elderly have bore many crosses in the name of Christ, and have not only earned the right to lead, but have been sanctioned by God to do so.
'You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the LORD (Lev 19:32)."
"The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person (Ecc 12:13)."
#7 Thanks Mary, It's really a blessing for me to work with the sermons. I'm getting really deep in every one of them, reflecting on every phrase. Every sermon takes 4-5 days to translate, so I have to be very selective. Man, he can talk :-)
Right now I'm actually working on a sermon series (260_Delivered-by-God), a very hot topic my country need to hear. About how to keep the line between Christians and non-Christians sharp and clear.
Hi, I am back. Good blog about discernment.. Been reading God's Word and learn things.
"Live in the light and as the light is in you. If darkness is in you, you are not living in the light. Jesus is the vine, we are the branches.."
That shows we grow with Christ and how important the relationship between God and man.
Trust Jesus no matter what. Be thankful who you are and walk with Christ... Keep on your eyes on the Lord.. Be strong. If one fall, Ask God to help ...He will help one up.
"Reviewing the Ten Commandments both in the Old Testament and the New Testament. When the rich man thought he can get in Heaven... God is right, He alone is good, not us... .. Awesome God is He, full of goodness and no sin to hide.."
Growing up is the most important part of our lives. It is greatest commitment to grow with Christ. Praise the Lord..
I won't cut you any slack, Rudi. If you have noticed, which I am sure you have, JM repeats himself a lot (I'm sure for emphasis). So you should be able to cut your work down to half that amount of time. lol!
Hi Dan Wilson, and Rebecca.
I am 25 years old, been married for 7 months and I have been a Christian for 9 years. I was saved about 20 days before my 16th birthday and since then my passion has been for the word of God and the glory of God. My heart is to live according to His word in every aspect of my life and to properly understand His truth. This blog series has been one of great encouragement and great conviction. I guess you could say that I'm a "YRR"; however, I prefer to called a Christian. Now with all that said I do have some questions/concerns directed towards myself. I love hymns and modern praise (pending it has sound theology), but I also like Christian rock and things of the sort. I am from the South where it seems that if something goes against tradition or country music is deemed of the devil, so many times my personal musical preferences were condemned because of the style of music, not the content of the lyrics. As mentioned above there is the "reformed rap," or rap with sound theology; likewise, there is rock with sound doctrine for lyrics. I guess coming down to it my question/concern is what I listen to for personal time wrong? My desire is to please God in everything so the stuff I listen to lyrically has to be sound. I love hearing the word of God properly and wonderfully preached. God's word is very precious and dear to me and my favorite bands have to reflect the same desire. I hope this makes sense. My conscience has never been convicted against listening to such music, so I don't feel that I'm posting out of a guilty conscience. Rather, I am always pursuing after God's holiness and I don't want anything, music included, to get in the way, so I am constantly re-evaluating things in my life and would like to get some input. Thanks.
In Christ,
#20 (Greg)
Listening to sound Christian music on your own time is okay. It really boils down to what your convictions are. I occasionally listen to non-christian music on my own time and have no conviction about it, although I do listen less than I used to because I have felt conviction to do so as I've matured. Most of what is being discussed in these blogs is music in the sanctuary, to which I fall on the conservative side. I've been in churches from rock-concert type "worship" to horn and organ hymns, and have come to the realization and conviction lately that most modern worship is not honorable to God. I think Hillsongs and stuff is okay if the music is simple and tasteful, but beyond that I think modern "worship" is all about pleasing humans and not pleasing God. I love guitar solos and long hard-rocking instrumentals, but find them utterly distasteful and self-serving in the sanctuary. I think much of what qualifies as worship nowadays belongs on the radio and not in the sanctuary.
Psalm 30:10 - Helps us to depend on Jesus.
and Psalm 25:4-7 is another on that to grow and live by Christ.
Psalms 119 is another good one. God's Word is awesome. and living Christ-center lives is too. God bless.
Hello Greg, I noticed that you are a relatively young man with a similar experience such as myself. I was born in a Christian home and loved the things of God for most of my life. As I matured in scripture, I understood more and more what sin is and how sin manifests itself in my everyday expressions. In my teen years, I struggled with secular music and just could not listen to the songs the same way. My observance was that the more I understood the nature of God and the life of a believer, I had to separate myself from those vices. Participating in worldly activities is not always a matter of conscience, for that can be deceiving. When I read John's statements on discernment, knowledge is what drives it, not my conscience. My sinful nature and past activity in sin flaws my conscience if I flow with my conscience alone. Often our conscience is still a work in progress because of the sinful past that we conducted ourselves in. One can never rest in the level of accountability his or her conscience has toward God. You rely on the word of God and understand that "those who are in the flesh cannot please God" (Romans 8:8). Spiritual maturity is to devote ourselves to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives in everything we do. Music is a trap and as a fellow musician, I have witnessed many musicians who attempted to mix the world with godliness. It does not work and is very deceiving. If our ultimate goal is to stive to please God in every way (Colossians 1:10), then what role does worldly music or the world's suggestion on how and what we should play factor into our living for His glory? Often Christian music is a diluted poison of the world's sinful entertainment and a fleshly appeal in the name of God. Can God be glorified in any of this? I do struggle with that question because I get more out of it than He does. So it seems as if I am the one who is being glorified.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (67 votes).
In short: OopsIn full: As always a fun challenging race. Some steep hills but balanced out with some downhill and straight road sections to increase the pace. My 3rd time and would of done a PB had it not been for a wrong turn with many other runners. Where was marshal?! Turned around when realised but was too late for some who carried on... As a side note £15 feels a bit too much but then I suppose is comparable to other races. The lack of affiliated discount was disappointing.Can the times be adjusted?! Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: Loved it!In full: Great local race, heard that first 20 runners ran the wrong way and therefore the course was short for them, which is a real shame for both runners and organisers. My garmin measured 6.27miles so accurate for me. Pleased with my time of 45mins. Lovely scenic route, which I thought was well marshalled, lots of support throughout, weather perfect! Obviously have to mention the hills, they were a real pleasure - NOT!! Found Frenchay Hill the worst, was glad of the water at the top! Will definately be back next year £12 is a total bargain for this race! Great to have a chip timing aswell - really hope the results get published!Date of review: April 15, 2012
In full: I come back every year for this race and always enjoy the 3 mildly challenging gradients, wife did say that a number of runners had gone the wrong way and finished to soon, 6.26miles on Garmin for me. Look forward to next year!Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: Oh dear...In full: Not sure what went wrong today but the first 20 finishers were sent in the wrong direction (no marshall?).Consequently there is confusion over wether results will stand.Good organisation at the start,smooth registration and good atmosphere.Lovely course,not too hilly (LIAR!!!).Will be back next year but please sort out the directions!Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: How far is 10K? I think this was shortIn full: My race did not go well, it is a hilly course - and yet I was fast. Surprisingly fast. So surprisingly fast I do not think it was 10K long.Would be interested to hear what others thought.Do PBs and stuff count of the course is the wrong length?Date of review: April 15, 2012
In short: Hot and hilly but a great raceIn full: This is local for me so a laid back Sunday morning run. The 3 hills, enough has been said about them but Blackberry Hill at the very end is a killer. No amount of training prepares you for it, because feeling good at 9k and going downhill, you go faster and never have enough left!Watering station could have done to have been earlier, after the 2nd uphill at 6k was just too late on such a hot day.Good value event though and beers in the student union bar afterwards made it worthwhileDate of review: May 22, 2011
In short: Confusion with start mats; should have been told it was gun start, chip finish.Date of review: April 24, 2011
In short: More than one tough hill in this race!!In full: Excellent race, good organisation, and well supported. Not just Blackberry Hill at end to contend with, as there were a couple more tough hills en route. Overall very enjoyable, and would definitely do this again.Only slight drawback was the 'gun to chip' timing (why have starting mats?)Date of review: April 20, 2011
In short: Those hills!!In full: Scenery through Snuff Mills was gorgeous.The heat and the hills combined meant I had to walk the end of all the hills - so I'll be back next year to beat them!Was pleasantly surprised, when I got my race pack through, to find that it was chip timed. Organisation was generally good although I (generally) only saw every other kilometre marker (probably just me), and when I did see 2 consecutive markers they must have been out as according to my watch I did 1k in about 3 mins (I wish!)Makes a nice change to have a mug at the end.Date of review: April 18, 2011
In short: Road and woods, all good and plenty of neighbours giving encouragement. As everyone else said, you just dont have enough left for Blackberry hill as hard as you might try.In full: First Frenchay for me and thoroughly enjoyed it. Was a little too hot but hey, the organisers cant do anything about that! Well organised, friendly and chuffed to get a decent T shirt which also had my name on!! Simple things eh? Also, a mug was a nice change too. Very very close to a PB for me despite the hills and would deffo do it again, though am concentrating on halfs for the rest of the season. Well done Frenchay, a cracking day! Date of review: April 18, 2011
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
A little late...but check out my halloween post
Hey guys,
Every year, my two roommates and I have a halloween party. Since we're the hosts, we always coordinate outfits. Last year, we were the fanta girls and it was a big hit. This year though, we wanted to shock everyone's socks off and go for something even bolder.
So here's last year's and this year's halloween pics...this year we were KISS! Well at least a sexier more female version of the 70's rock group, he he. I did the makeup using a cheap makeup kit from the halloween store...it was more challenging than I thought, but it turned out well. FYI, I photoshopped the KISS pic to make it look rock star glam...don't tell my roomies, but i'm printing the pics to be part of their x-mas gifts. Now the only thing is...what are we going to be next year! Any tips are welcome!
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- Fei said...
That is awesome. The Fanta girls idea is so cute! And Kiss... Girl, I admire all the work you put in to create those looks. It turned out really nice!
- December 4, 2007 at 6:24 PM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
thanks Fei :) i have no idea what we're doing next year!
- December 4, 2007 at 10:59 PM
- Leesah said...
alvin & the chipmunks would be cute for the 3 of you. :)
- December 24, 2007 at 4:13 AM
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What Seth still seems to fail to grasp is that what he calls "selectivity" is really just the school's acceptance rate. A school that generally draws less qualified applicants but has (or claims to have) a 5 or 10% acceptance rate is not going to be as "selective" as a school that attracts much more qualified applicants and has the same acceptance rates as the first school. He never makes that distinction.
Of course, it would be hard to compare the quality of current MFA students in one program with those in another on the basis of any clearly quantitative measurement.
After reading your post, I would like to talk to you and get your advice. When it comes to an MFA and Critical Theory, NH Institute of Art is big on that....I applied and got in....now I am strongly wondering if this will help me.....I applied to Lesley as well. What are your thoughts about both programs? Which one is better???
"Beautiful prose in the service of what?" That's the sentence one Iowa-alum friend of mine described Conroy as saying when the prose in a story that was being workshopped was lovely but nothing of consequence was actually happening in the story. My friend, who saw Conroy as sometimes very unkind to students, has still said, all these years later, that he "learned" a great deal about story-telling from being in Conroy's workshops.
Besides Stop-Time, his memoir (written before the memoir became hip and widely marketable), Conroy's work includes the short story Midair (first published in a collection by that name), and it's astonishingly good--one I've read three or four times in the past 15 years.
I was in a dark hole-in-the-wall corner of a restaurant when I wrote my last post, but I nonetheless apologize for the typos, etc. therein. (If there's a spellcheck on this site's keyboard, I missed it).
A New Yorker piece from 2009 about the many attempts to define or explain the worth and purpose of the MFA program in creative writing:
Based on the accounts of two people I know who got their MFAs at Iowa, former director Frank Conroy didn't appear to believe that faculty ought to just "get out of the way" of students and let things happen, creatively. (And WERE that truly the case for the faculty at Iowa's writing program, the university might want to consider putting those same faculty members' salaries toward another use.) Anyway, Conroy was known to sometimes say to a student (and in front of that student's classmates) some things that certain others in the class saw as emotionally damaging. In any case, Conroy was, apparently, never known for "getting out of the way" and leaving any discussion of a story's merits solely to the students in a particular workshop.
Also, Abramson has claimed that he's acquired special expertise on MFA programs, and Poets & Writers editors have quickly supported/defended that claim. Yes, he's got some numbers down--though those numbers don't satisfy either a doctoral-level mathematician or statistician I've talked to about this.
The problem is that, in a broad range of areas, he doesn't display great expertise:
1) He shows an almost obsessive need to classify things: literature, writing teachers, periods in the history of poetry...
But the difficulty with a tendecy to classify that intensely is that it veers increasingly toward over-classification--and, as many people realize, overclassification often leades to oversimplification.
Seth Abramson is trying to learn about the history of poetry, and I laud him for that effort, but he so often gets that history wrong. And his rather grandiose claims about the worthiness of MFA programs does next to nothing to elevate the status of MFA programs in the eyes of those who didn't attend one. Pre-Seth, we had Dana Gioia as the main detractor of MFA programs. I seems obvious to me that as more of these programs have sprouted, the more resistence I'm seeing among "literary" (and I mean that in the best sense) poets and witers who didn't get an MFA. And to be honest, had my first encounters with MFA programs been with Abramson's description of them, I would have likely regarded the whole phenomenon with much more suspicion.
As it is, Abramson sometimes seems like a kid who's just encountering a whole new history of poetry, but his reaction seems to be an over-simplified thinking about that history
His latest view on the future of poetry: Metamodernism is taking over lierature--or lit crit? (It's an intersting conclusion for someone who supports the ideal of the "studio" program where no "analysis" takes place.)
And while this exchange is clever on the surface, it's also worth reading because it shows that literary history is messy and complex:
By the way, the latest (as far as I can tell) fad in lit crit is "neuro lit crit." My favorite sentence from this particuar article:
"Given that many philosophers saw critical theory as a way for English professors to do philosophy really badly, it should not come as a surprise to find that some with a keen understanding of neuroscience are deeply skeptical of this attempt to say something new about old books."
I'd like to avoid altogether referring to Seth Abramson, the creator of this system of "rankings," but he's created such a world for himself around his views on MFA programs that it's impossible for me to avoid referring to his other comments on the topic--or impossible to avoid if I'm to again raise questions about the wisdom of his system and about the wisdom of Poets & Writers for advocating the system's worthiness.
Abramson has a habit of proclaiming that something is true and then assuming, as if through magical thinking (or so it seems to some of us), that the mere the stating of the idea therefore makes it true.
One of those truisms of his: that being a good writer has little or nothing to do with being a good writing teacher. Yet, he provides utterly no evidence for that claim--not even his own anectdotal evidence.
Here's my own anedtodal (experience-based) evidence:
With one exception, all the good writers I had as writing teachers were very good writing teachers. True, it's not necessarily the case that a good writer would be a good writing teacher. But unless the teacher has an emotional problem, is self-centered (and, therefore, uninterested in students' needs), or has some other emotional/social/psychological reason she cannot communicate her ideas orally or in writng to students, it would make sense that good writers would tend be good readers and good at expressing themselves in language about the art of (say) fiction writing and, therefore, would make good writing teachers.
Having an asute reader is vital to learning to write well.
Rust Hills wasn't a fiction writer but he was a great fiction editor (meaning, a smart fiction reader) and, therefore, a good writing teacher:
On the other hand, good fiction writers tend to think about what they're doing and--barring some bizarro problem with their abilty to work with other human beings--tend to be (if they communicate even a tenth as well outside their writing as they do in their writing) perfect candidaties for being good writing teachers.
I'd like to see us rid ourselves of this romatic/romanticized notion that writing teachers are pretty much irrelvant in these programs.
Oh, and by the way: I, like many other voracious readers when we were young, was able to read astutely long before I entered an MFA program (even though I didn't major in English!). Although the sprouting of more and more MFA programs would serve Abramson's purposes well, the idea that MFA programs should increase in number so that Americans can become better readers of literature is not only absurd when we look at literary history--including the history of readership--in the U.S. but also conspicuously self-serving on Abramson's part.
I've read comments on a couple of sites claiming that the so-called studio-versus-academic distinction regarding MFA programs was created by the AWP. If so, that's too bad. It's an unfortunately misleading distinction.
What does "academic" mean? I attended one of those so-called academic programs, where certain courses were modeled after earlier courses at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where one of the co-founders of my program studied under Donald Justice in the 1960s. Our "Form and Theory of Fiction" and "Form and Theory of Poetry" courses were modeled after courses in Iowa's MFA program, including "Form and Theory of Fiction" and its later versions under later names. In fact, here's an example:
I read a few years ago on the MFA blog a comment by one potential MFA applicant who stated that she would prefer a "studio" MFA program because she couldn't stand the thought of writing another lit crit paper.
After having read plenty of "critical theory," etc. on my own in an effort to figure out what all this jargon-laden prose by contemporary lit scholars was saying, I became determined to never write such a paper EVER. The sole reason I didn't major in English (I majored in "analytic" philosophy instead) is that I was appalled by the obscurantist writing that characterized so much of the scholarship I'd come across in literary theory, and I didn't think I would benefit from any course that would reward me for writing that badly.
And had I been expected to write such papers in my "academic" MFA program, I would have left the program after one semester. Fortunately, the focus was on craft, not Derrida or post-structuralism, etc, etc.
So in case anyone fears the more "academic" programs, rest assured that at least SOME of those programs won't torture you by making to write a Marxist or feminist or Foucauldian analysis of "Sense and Sensibility." (As physicist Alan Sokal demonstrated, one can be politically liberal, or "progressive," without embracing the ideas of the "academic left.")
I think people mistake all education with vocational training these days. They want a certificate and a job when they finish. Money in, money out. At Columbia, I was given time (and academic credit) for writing. There were no teaching fellowships and no one chased after you to give you career counseling, agent counseling. There was not one single lecture on marketing your work. Much of what I learned had to do with developing a certain angle of vision. Attitudes about my work and how to pursue my ideas with both faith and objectivity.
Work by Hunter College Alumni:
Since the orginator of these "rankings" has repeatedly denigrated Columbia and other NYC MFA programs (no, I neither got my MFA there nor applied to that program), I thought I would mention this 2013 MacArthur Fellow who earned her MFA at Columbia:
Alumni of NYU's MFA program: