Here's Part 4 of her series on Growing Up, which that other one was part of also. Here she's being what I'd call the entertainer and the distractor. As in the other one she took a biblical messahge about groowing into the character of Christ and made it into a messabgge about not letting yoruselve be treated as a child, here's she's doing the same thing. Using the passage in Ephesians about growing up into Christ together with all the other memebers of the Church with all our spiritual gifts working together to unity in the faith, and while seeming to talk in that Christian context she does a lot of antics that are more about everyday life. She's got a stage linbed up with props, a baby's high chair, a bicycle, car seats and a steering wheel so she can dramatize her pionts. Again rather disjointed points but it's not as garbled and disconnected as the other one, more a case of taking scripture and garbling it with meaningless nonbiblical content.
It's supposed to be about finding our Christian calling, at least that's how she presented it at first, and I end up not knowing really what the message is supposed to be in the end. I have to admit, however, that I have too little patiences to spend much time on this one. It's not as clearly crazymaking as the other one but it's also not much of a Christian messabge either.
Most of the people who are drawn to this sort of thing must not be genuine born again Christians. How could they be? The fare is empty of much in the way of Christian teaching.
What draws people in such huge numbers to these "Christian" h seducers. Interesting by the way that she has a short messabge about seduction which starts out seeming to talk about the kind of seduction a Christian should fear, being seduced away spiritually from Christ, but uses language and imagery to make it into an orderinary fleshly seduction although it's really not at all clear what she means since her terms are so general and abstract. Anyway, SHE's the seducer.
As is Joel Osteen and all the Prosperity teachers, and all those who get these gigantic audiences. There is no real attracttion here for the christian as far as I can see. The attraction is just the usual attraction to entertainment with a sorta kkinda message about improving uyyo8uir life.
After writing this I went back and heard more and she's now talking clearly about sesxual seduction. It's a good enough message in itself but as I keep finding out in these videos it has no clear connection to the overall theme of finding our calling and even less connection with the scripture in Ephsians which is about Christians growing together into the characvter of Christ.
I'm sorry to think that true Christians are being led away by these things.
What's Driving You? | The Art of Growing Up - Part 3 of 4 | Beth Moore - YouTube
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