Deconstructing Deconstruction - The Jesus Trip

About this sermon

Iconoclasm and its Limits ... This week, John Crowder discusses the topic of "deconstruction" - both it's necessity and it's limitations. While John himself spends an enormous amount of time deconstructing religious ideas and doctrines, there is a popular trend today of constantly critiquing, tearing down and attacking what is false, while still missing the positive affirmation of what is true: the simplicity of Christ and Him crucified. God Himself, as CS Lewis noted, is the "Great Iconoclast" constantly destroying our idolatrous, false ideas about Him. So there is an important place for deconstruction. However, left alone, deconstruction itself can become both idolatrous and relativistic. Relativistic in that it becomes a depressed, nihilistic confusion - attacking everything, as if nothing is absolutely true. And idolatrous in that we are still trying to mentally ascend to God by trying to say what He is "not." For more information on John Crowder and Sons of Thunder Ministries and Publications, visit us online at http://www.thenewmystics.com Get our new iPhone app Free at the Apple App Store: https://goo.gl/xlWvuc Get our new Android app Free at the Google Play Store: https://goo.gl/C03JAv Find audio teachings and books at: http://www.johncrowder.net Find upcoming conferences, schools and events at: http://www.thenewmystics.com/schools Find upcoming mission trips you can join at: http://www.thenewmystics.com/missions Find out about Cana New Wine Seminary online at: http://www.cana.co Find the Ecstatic Magazine online at: http://www.thenewmystics.com/ecstatic Become a member of our live monthly web conferences: www.thenewmystics.tv Follow John on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/thenewmystics Follow John's personal Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/thenewmystics Follow John's public Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/revjohncrowder Follow John on Instagram at: http://www.instagram.com/thenewmystics Send a big fat love donation!! http://www.paypal.me/johncrowder

Topics

• Repentance
• Jesus Christ