Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Grace is wildly irreligious stuff .....

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Robert Capon :

"Grace is wildly irreligious stuff. 
It's more than enough to get 
God kicked out of the "god union" 
that "theologians" have formed to keep Him 
on His divine toes so He won't let riffraff off scot-free..
[but] 
... getting off scot-free 
is the only way any of us gets off at all."


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Failure doesn't worry my Saviour .....

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"Humanity is a mess,
and the world at its most perceptive knows it.
We may be a nice mess,
a warmhearted, well-intentioned shambles,
but we remain intractable.
Why then are we so reluctant to come out and say flatly
that is precisely the mess that is Christ's metier? [so suited for]

We have put crucifixes on our altars for centuries,
but we have seldom proclaimed the point.
It is precisely the impossible, the horrendous, the hopeless,
the useless, that is the occasion of his work.

He is here to draw our debacle into His
and to bring His Passion into ours.
He will not have failures with the proviso
that at some stage they must quit being failures
and snap to.

He will, himself the great failure,
save them in failure by failure."


[i wrote a tweet on this,
then HG brought me to the above]

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"For, by the disaster of His Charity,
God plays out, at last, the Game that began with the dawn of history.
In the Garden of Eden -
in the paradise of pleasure -
where God laid out His [tennis] court
and first served a hint of meaning to humankind -
Adam strove with God over the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

But God does not accept "thrown-down racquets".
He refuses, at any cost, to take seriously,
our declination of the game;
if Adam will not have God's rules,
God will play by Adam's.

In another and darker garden he accepts the tree of our choosing,
and with nails through His hands and feet
He volleys back meaning for unmeaning.
As the darkness descends,
at the last foul drive of a desperate day,
He turns to the thief on the right
and brings off the dazzling backhand return
that fetches history Home in triumph :
Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

God has Gardens to give away!
He has cities to spare!
He has history he hasn't even used!
The last of all the mercies is that
God is lighter than we are,
that in the Heart of the Passion
lies the Divine Mirth,

and that even in the cities of our exile
He still calls to Adam only to catch the Glory,
to offer the world,
and return the service
that shapes the City of God."

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excerpts from "The Romance of the Word" - Robert Capon.

recent tweets ..... recorded thoughts

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debate!? "guns don't kill ppl, ppl kill people".. 
guns allow dejected ppl 2 kill more ppl @ a dispassionate distance- 
gun licensing and revision always required
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"Graphity" .... there's a new hypothesis for the start of the universe .... 
the language they use is so mystical and trippy .... 
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.. the religionists don't like their clubs exposed .. 
Michael Moore and Julian Assange give evidence to that ..
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His blissing is not only restricted to this life we lead before our death ! yep ya ....(1C15)
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Yeshoa is not a "notch in ya belt" or a "been there done that" .... 
He is way too lovingly intriguing to dismiss ..... 
He is our destiny even now !
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.... whales blow past my lookout .... 
like cloud drift from the north ....
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Love does not have to prove it's self 
by acts of supreme devotion or self-sacrifice .....
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Love is not about defending a point of view .....
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Everyone of you mirrors Him. He defines your form.
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Everyone is EQUALLY INCLUDED in the same joy ...
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Every member considers the other with affectionate care .....
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Every individual part of the body is equally VALUED ..... 
1C12 .... 
[no sleight of hand on this, wannabe celebrity leaders] ......
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my focus is on hyper-restored original-righteousness ..... 
not working my way out of original-sin ..... 
DONE DEAL DELIVERED by Yeshoa .....
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.... the party that is Usain Bolt ! 
.... David Lekuta Rudisha - 800m - beautiful ! 
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Grace sets the pace in my consciousness ..... 
not people's suspicious scrutiny ...... 1C10
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Grace is like BEING in His Garden of Delight ..... 
Law is like WORKING in a stranger's prickle farm ......
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Live your life overwhelmed with God's Glorious Good Opinion of you ...... 
1C10 
yes you !!! 
hahe
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u r fully competent 2 judge such matters in the light o the Gospel o Grace; 
why involve ppl who judge according 2 the law of this world (1C6)
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Public failure does not worry my Saviour .....
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fatalism,determinism,pantheism,accidentalism,evolutionism,
all seem to be similar 2 occasionalism : 
they the world exists & continues only cos of it !??
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the mysteries in creation (eg Relativity; Quantum;Unified theories etc) only add perspective to the mysteries in Heaven
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... the Dominion of Christ is an empowered life in u ; 
not the quoting of your favourite teacher or scripture ... (1C4)
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compeers, 
u r already saturated,
literally jam-packed 2 capacity;
u can't get any wealthier than u r now,
He has made u royalty not ur teachers
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No man has reason 2 boast in himself,
as if he gained something that doesn't ALREADY belong 2 him. 
ALL things already belong to & r in all.
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There r countless mentors supervising ur lives
[with expectations suppressing love & joy] 
but few fathers to graciously free u in the Spirit.
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I am a spiritual being engrossed in His Artistry ..... 
Wow wow wow wow wow
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Every Being made special by Yeshoa ..... 
forget self-aggrandizement and self-humility 
and anything false in between! 
U are made special, 
yes u r
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Am I prosecutor for the rules .. 
or .. 
I am enjoyer of the Freedom ..... 
[ hahe ..... I choose the latter ]
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i've been in relat'nships,
with ppl and individuals,
where my performance determines their love 4 me..
it sucks..
so, so happy Jeshua isn't like that !
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.. religion and sin carries its own hell, on Earth, right now ..
..... but Charis ..... 
will we ever be able to plumb its depth,width,height .....
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Paul motivated to write to us about God's gift of grace, 
he did not want us to forget that grace IS our true allotted position ..... [R15]
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