I've been reading Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood for several days now (about 2/3 through it today), and I keep chuckling at Hazel Motes's "Church of Christ Without Christ" (a.k.a. "Church Without Christ") that he keeps trying to start.
Well, I preach the Church Without Christ. I'm member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way. ... I'm going to preach it to whoever'll listen at whatever place. I'm going to preach there was no Fall because there was nothing to fall from and no Redemption because there was no Fall and no Judgment because there wasn't the first two."
Sounds a lot like Neibuhr's 1938 assessment of mainline liberal theology:
A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.
Hazel Motes, Deepak Chopra, and Katharine Jefferts-Schori apparently have a lot in common.
A church without Jesus Christ is no church at all. God bless you
-Vic
sources: The Holy Bible, or The word of God. Same thing.
Posted by: Victor Salcido | January 28, 2009 at 11:53 AM
But there probably is no such thing as God. Is it not just a long line of superstition?
Something devised for control over the masses maybe? For the weak to control the strong?
Posted by: Kate | June 17, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Unfortunately, many churches are without Christ because they do not follow His teaching but the traditions of men. Jesus said worship based on commandments of men is vain (Matt. 15:9).
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