A New Theology
April 29, 2010
A NEW THEOLOGY Join me 9:30 AM Saturday morning for ConneXions open forum discussion. We are going to look at a new theology, which was captured in a story Jesus shared in response to being asked, “what is required for my salvation?”
We’ll delve into the story in class (Luke 10:25-42), but just as importantly, we’ll ask some of the hard questions about what this says to us today. Questions like:
Who is my neighbor? What is my response to their suffering? What is our response as a community?
I can’t help thinking, when I read of the life of Christ, that we are being called to a new theology….
If you enjoyed this post, be sure to read the rest from this author. Craigan Griffin is a local doctor and outdoorsman, who loves his family and living in Bend. He is a lay leader in ConneXions and has a passion for exploring the Word and pursuing the Way. 
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The Spirit of Jezebel: there is a type of demonic influence in the church that can rightly be called by the name Jezebel, a jezebel spirit seeks to control through manipulation. It cannot handle true spiritual authority. The name in hebrew means literally “without cohabitation” she will not live or cohabit with those she cannot dominate or control. She is a demonic spirit and her greatest enemy is TRUE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY. When Jezelbl sent Elizah a single threat he became anxious, depresed and miserable. This is a great example of Jezebel’s powerful demonic anointing to intimidate, create fear, and cause men of God to withdraw.
The enmity in the closing scenes of Christ’s earthly life came from the leaders of religion. The “good” man, the man whose god is righteousness, has as his life’s ambition the keeping of rules and commandments and keeping of himself uncontaminated by the world. This sounds admirable, but as the truth of Christ showed, the whole of such living, the whole drive and ambition, the whole edifice, is SELF-CENTERED! That entire process of effort must be abandoned if a man is to give himself in love to God and his fellows. He must lose his life if he is ever going to find it.
Now to the good-living, the law-abiding, the COMMANDMENT-KEEPING people of God, the way of Christ looked like, as indeed it was, a threat to the whole root and branch of their conception of the good life. And that is why in desperation and fear they felt they must be rid of him. It is odd, indeed it is tragic, that the good-living and the religious should find themselves in inevitable opposition to the Son of God; but so it was. From their point of view, he was dangerous, revolutionary, a threat to their LABORIOUSY BUILT STRUCTURE OF GOODNESS. He must go; if need be, he must die. The very men who thought they were serving God and who might be expected to have recognized the Son of God in person….became his most implacable enemies. And this strange bitter oppostion between the Spirit of Christ and the spirit of religious righteousness has persisted through the centuries and is with us still today. But, his light still shines in the darkness, his voice still calls in the silence, and his way still lies open for those who will dare to follow Him.