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In many was, this dude is a neo-Mark Driscoll. And as much as I want to forget Driscoll and especially this moron, there are some important lessons here for “progressive Christians.” https://twitter.com/seanfeucht/status/1344139649455849472
A lot of people are wondering why he isn’t listening to the LA churches who are begging him not to go through with this.
But that is exactly the point.
He needs both “the world” and the “false Xians” to call him out. That’s how he validates himself as “authentically Xian”
But that is exactly the point.
He needs both “the world” and the “false Xians” to call him out. That’s how he validates himself as “authentically Xian”
That was Driscoll’s strategy too: the fact that BOTH the world and the church were calling him out was evidence that he was doing something right—“shaking things up” like Jesus did.
I think this is largely why progressive Christian movements fail. They become formally indistinguishable from even the most fascist iterations of “authentic Christianity.”
That’s because in both cases, the baseline for authenticity just seems to be “following Jesus.” That is the primary apologetic strategy of progressive Christians: I just try to follow Jesus.
Guess what? @seanfeucht thinks he’s following Jesus too. So maybe... just “following Jesus” isn’t an adequate foundation for politics?
I’m not saying an argument can’t or shouldn’t be made that Sean “worst hair on social media” Feucht is really bad at interpreting what it means to follow Jesus. For people invested in the content of “following Jesus,” I think the Feuchts of the world should be rejected/rebuked
But that by itself doesn’t produce an effective politics. Hauerwas is wrong about this.
The problem isn’t insisting on a right way to follow Jesus. The problem is thinking that’s all you need. This is why Marx is so attractive I think: Changing how you think about material conditions can’t change them (can’t have any real effect on politics or economy)
