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//There are Christians who call themselves Kierkegaardians, much as others call themselves Augustinians or Thomists, Lutherans or Barthians. But Soren Kierkegaard provides no school of thought, and most emphatically no "system", that can be a secure resting place for one's Christian existence. Kierkegaard offers only a mode of being, of thinking, of living that has no end other than the end of being "contemporaneous" with Jesus Christ, true man and true God, who has no end..."Many are called, but few are chosen"- from on high He will draw all unto Himself. But because many are called, it does not follow that many are chosen; on the contrary, it is said expressly that few are chosen...Now it is well enough known that Christ constantly uses the expression "follower"; He never says anything about wanting admirers, worshipers, or adherents;...that they are not adherents of a doctrine but followers of a life...And we may surely assume also that He knew perfectly well why His whole life on earth, from beginning to end, was calculated only to procure "followers," and calculated to make "admirers" impossible.
//Soren Kierkegaard did not, of course, know about nineteenth-century revivalism, from which today's evangelicalism issues, but he had some acquaintance with the enthusiasms that were in his day associated with "pietism" (a 17th century religious movement originating in Germany in reaction to formalism and intellectualism and stressing Bible study and personal religious experience). As he inveighed against Christendom, it seems likely he would also inveigh against evangelicaldom today; As he would inveigh against Christianity of any sort-whether it calls itself liberal or conservative, orthodox or progressive-that neatly accommodates itself to its cultural context. To decide for Christ our contemporary is always a decision to be a cultural alien.
//It is a frightful thing to discover that the truth is persecuted, but the suffering assumes a different character, depending upon who it is makes this discovery. A foolish, conceited man who is extraordinarily satisfied with himself does not suffer greatly at the discovery that truth is persecuted-if indeed it were possible for such a man to make this discovery. On the other hand, the god-man knows within himself and with eternal certainty that he is the truth, and he surely suffers for the fact that as the truth or in spite of being the truth he is persecuted; but he does not suffer inwardly at another spot concerning how thoroughly he himself at every instant is in the truth. But such is the case with the individual Christian; It naturally could never occur to him to desire blasphemously to be the truth, he is before God a lowly, sinful man who only very imperfectly relates himself to the truth. But the more the Christian is thus inwardly in fear and trembling before God, so much the more is he in dread of every false step, so much the more is he inclined only to accuse himself. In this situation it might sometimes be a comfort to him if others thought well of him. But exactly the opposite is the case, he is accused of every evil, and every instant is forced back again into concern about himself, whether after all the fault might not lie in him-and he shudders...And just as the individual may aspire to become something, so does the age; and this is what it aspires to: it would build up the established order, abolish God, and through fear of men cow the individual into a mouse's hole-but this is what God will not have, and He employs the exactly opposite tactics: He employs the individual to provoke the established order out of its self-complacency.
//When the individual appears to his God-relationship in opposition to the established order, it looks indeed as if he makes himself more than a man. Nevertheless, he does not by any means do that; for he concedes that every man, absolutely every man, has or should have for his part the same relationship with God...Why has Hegel treated conscience, and the conscience-relationship in the individual, as "a form of evil"?...Why? Because he deified the established order...Nothing but the vain conceit of a triumphant Church could succeed in making the notion prevail that in a stricter sense only one particular order in the Church was really Christian...But that the established order has become something divine or is regarded as divine constitutes a falsehood which is made possible by ignoring its origin...It began with the God-relationship of the individual, but now this must be forgotten, the bridge hewn down, the established order deified...And strangely enough it is precisely this deification of the established order which constitutes the constant rebellion, the permanent revolt against God...The established order desires to be totalitarian, recognizing nothing over it, but having under it every individual, who expounds the most humble, but at the same time the most humane doctrine about what it means to be a man, the established order desires to terrify by imputing to the guilt of blasphemy.
//But woe, woe to the Christian Church if it would triumph in this world, for then it is not the Church that triumphs, but the world has triumphed...The apparently harmonious but demonically seductive synthesis of History, Thought, Morality, Society, Church, and Christ that constituted establishment Protestantism was condemned by Kierkegaard as Christendom; Kierkegaard seems to be hyper-Protestant in his relentless individuality and antipathy to ecclesiastical authority, even if, in Denmark, it was to Protestant ecclesiastical authority...and against it he intends to make the argument for true Christianity...to once again introduce Christianity into Christendom...Christ confronts us now, and a decision must be made. "In relation to the absolute there is only one tense: the present. For him, the individual, who is not contemporary with the absolute-for him it has no existence."...With this invitation to all them "that labor and are heavy laden" Christianity did not come into the world as an admirable example of the gentle art of consolation-but as the absolute.
-Soren Kierkegaard, Training In Christianity
And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces all these other kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
-Dn2:44, KJVer
These things I have spoken to you(p), that in Me you(p) might have peace. In the world you(p) shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. -Jesus Christ
-Jn16:33, KJVer
"Take The Leap Of Faith Today"
The eternal is acquired in one way, and it is different from everything else precisely because it can be acquired only in one single way. It is the difficult way that Christ indicated by the words: "Small is the gate and narrow the way, that leads to life, and few are they that find it."...The comfortable-precisely the thing in which our age excels-absolutely cannot be applied with respect to an eternal blessedness...Yes, doubt will come, even to the one who follows Christ. But the only person who has a right to leap forward even with a doubt is someone whose life bears the marks of imitation, someone who by a decisive action at least tries to go so far out that becoming a Christian can still be a possibility...For an existing individual, therefore, there is no objective truth "out there." An objective knowledge about the truth or the truths of Christianity is precisely untruth...This is because Christianity is inwardness. Christianity is paradox, and paradox requires one thing: the passion of faith...And Christ's life indeed makes it manifest, terrifyingly manifest, what dreadful untruth it is to admire the truth instead of following it...The will of Christ is this: an examination in which one cannot cheat.
Christ is the truth in the sense that to be the truth is the only true explanation of; the only true way of acquiring it. Therefore, truth is not a matter of knowing this or that but of being in the truth...Christ's life was the truth...Christ has no doctrine...He did not teach that there was redemption, he redeemed...Either/Or; A choice! Do you, my listener, know how to express in a single word anything more magnificent?...A choice! Yes, this is the pearl of great price, yet it is not intended to be buried and hidden away...
-Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
Welcome To The Existential Way...
Exist In The Way
//The premise for the Existential Way begins with the hope in setting the precedent by the individual and continues with the individual's relation to God as ascribed to with eternal constancy (of the divine, being unchanging). No other means to acquiring with such "eternal blessedness" the hope of setting forth the power of the Kingdom of God in motion in one's life can be made more clear than the existential notion of being in relation to God than: that of being in constant communication (fellowship) with God as an eternal existent (a man of God/of one's god-man relationship; As in auternae existent, existing believer presently and at all times).
//Christianity today is missing the one thing that has driven its apostasy since its inception, and that is the man of God. While the church of this world today finds its meaning through the various hermeneutics of a contrived theology, the reintroduction of Christianity into Christiandom begins with the individual. The reality is that the God-man himself Jesus Christ speaks to the individual before all else, and it is our Father above who gives those He chooses to his Son. It is what Jesus has to say that is directed to the individual and not to the world and all its formations of what it thinks Christianity is. This is not about a relationship with the Roman(Babylonian, Draconian) structure of societal control, the crowd that adjoins itself to a building; this is about you as an existing believer being defined by the person of Jesus Christ and by unlearning to become true self by the the power of God in order to overcome this world and have eternal salvation.
// The Existential Way describes the observed form of Christianity from the perspective of the individual experience, and the personal understanding of who one is to be if one so desires to seek the Way for himself. The Existential Way seeks not to dissuade you from the congregational setting that God has you to fellowship in; God must be the decider for you before all your ways so you can be of the righteous understanding in all His ways. The auternae existent is the Existential Christian who resides in God at all times by constant communication of presence in Him; and He in you. To exist in the Way is to complete the human by being in the Spirit(Holy Spirit); beginning with the person of Jesus Christ in reflecting him to become true self, and by his mediation as the God-man to relate to and be directed by Him(God) from above. Welcome and come exist in the Way!
Eternal Constancy.
Kevin J Meredith
"God exalted this Man to His right hand to be a Ruler and a Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. We are His witnesses to these words, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him."
Acts5:31-32, MEV
...Listen! I will make them come and worship before your feet and to know that I have loved you. -Jesus Christ
Rev3:9, MEV
Insist On Sainthood
It is well to remember that a new heart is one thing, and a pure heart is another. They are not synonymous. Any man can have a new heart which loves God and yet not possess a pure heart from which self, man-fear, love of praise and other like things are banished.
The fact is that we are not today producing saints. We are making converts to an effete type of Christianity that bears little resemblance to that of the New Testament. The average so-called Bible Christian in our times is but a wretched parody of true sainthood. Yet we put millions of dollars behind movements to perpetuate the degenerate form of religion and attack the man who dares to challenge the wisdom of it.
Clearly we must begin to produce better Christians. We must insist on New Testament sainthood for our converts, nothing less; and we must lead them into a state of heart purity, fiery love, separation from the world and poured-out devotion to the Person of Christ. Only in this way can the low level of spirituality be raised again to where it should be in the light of the Scriptures and of eternal values.
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience. -1 Timothy 3:9
~a.w. tozer, tozer on the holy spirit
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