{"id":189,"date":"2012-01-07T08:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T08:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/01\/being-a-christian-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-us\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T08:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T08:17:00","slug":"being-a-christian-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/01\/being-a-christian-should-scare-the-hell-out-of-us.html","title":{"rendered":"Being a Christian Should Scare the Hell Out of Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
\u201cThe House Studio\u201d is putting out some great material these days. In particular, they are re-packaging some profound video footage from great American theologians and practitioners along with well written study guides for small group study. They are great \u2013 affordable, too. My friend Isaac Anderson wrote the study guide for the \u201c<\/span>Economy of Love<\/a>,\u201d which features Shane Claiborne. If you are looking for great small group material with a short video lesson and plenty of thoughtful discussion material \u2013 you should get these \u2013 I highly recommend the ones with Claiborne<\/a>, Hauerwas<\/a>, &\u00a0<\/span>Brueggemann<\/a>.<\/span>\n
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The video below is from Sunday Asylum <\/a>\u2013 which is the Hauerwas study.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Hauerwas pulls no punches in this clip \u2013 but, when has he ever? It\u2019s one of the things I love the most about him. He puts his finger on one of the key issues for the evangelical Church in America: we have been shaped by our church, as well as our culture, to believe that religion is private; that our beliefs are a private thing, so they are only \u201ctrue for me.\u201d They are \u201cjust my opinion.\u201d The only way a person can make this particular speech act, Hauerwas claims, is if they have built their entire faith upon the prior assumption that \u201creligion\u201d is only personal and private, and not upon the scriptures and the life of the church. Christians must never make this assumption \u2013 not if we wish to be true to the faith we have been given.<\/span><\/div>\n
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And we have been \u201cgiven\u201d this faith. That Christianity is not \u201cmerely private\u201d is part of what the saints who have gone before us have taught us to believe. He says, \u201cThis is not work that can be done by yourself. It can only be done in a community through which you are made part of an ongoing history that you don\u2019t get to make up\u2026 Too often American Christians \u2013 I think \u2013 think that they get to make Christianity up, but it\u2019s received.\u201d And what we have received is this claim about the Lordship of Jesus, which has a profound impact on every single part of life<\/u>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He goes on to say, \u201cI don\u2019t have any private life as a Christian, it\u2019s all public\u2026 That \u201cJesus is Lord,\u201d is going to make my life dysfunctional in relation to a good deal of American practice\u2026 I mean, being a Christian should just scare the hell out of us\u2026 like on Sunday we\u2019ve got to rush together for protection and say, \u201cOh I\u2019m not crazy!\u2026 That we believe God was in Christ reconciling the world is craziness\u2026 it\u2019s going to make your life really weird.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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Being a Christian should scare the hell out of us. I feel this every single moment of every single day. I feel it so much less on Sunday when I gather with the people of God to imagine the future together. It\u2019s why I serve the church & why I\u2019m always so glad to be with the people of Redemption Church and my friends around the city\/country who share this faith. The Christian faith makes such weird demands upon my life that I find it completely exhausting! I am convinced I could never do it without my church.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I feel like every single Hauerwas book, article, video or audio clip should come with some sort of consumer protection label. WARNING: what you are about to hear will ruin you for an ordinary normal American life.<\/span><\/div>\n

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So you have been warned! Here\u2019s the clip:<\/span><\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M6Dr1QLiaAo?version=3<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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