McKnight on Zealotry
If you don't read anything else today, check out Scot McKnight's post on Zealotry. Scot has hit on, in a profound way, a problem that I have encountered and experienced again and again. He hits - I think exactly - on (1) why extra-biblical rule-making and judgmentalism go hand in hand, (2) the true motivations that underlie judgmentalism, and (3) why judgmentalism is ultimately a lack of trust in God and others.
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posted by Matt at Friday, July 07, 2006
1 Comments:
It took me a while to get back to this, but - I like what you are saying, too, Jonathan.
I think Pharaseeism is probably a better term for what McKnight is describing, since you don't want to confuse the particular phenomenon that McKnight is calling "Zealotry" with appropriate zeal in general.
Still, I also think McKnight is hitting on a pretty powerful idea here - about how people create extra-biblical rules because they don't trust God or themselves (or God's spirit).
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