I know, it seems like all I do is paste quotations anymore, but figured I owed ya a sampling from the Kilpatrick book.
Evangelicals spend much time and energy trying to find what they call "God's will." God's will is defined as something that God wants very much for your life but that he refuses to share with you directly. Evangelicals believe it is their job to figure out what he is thinking through prayer, fasting, Bible reading and watching The O'Reilly Factor.
Finding God's will is like living with a mute and uncooperative spouse who won't reveal what he or she wants and who is becoming more anxious, angry, and sad by the moment. It can take years to fully ascertain God's will for one's life, and even after it has been discovered, one must still carry it out with a level of uncertainty and a persistent suspicion that one id doing one's own will instead of God's will. In evangelical circles, one is not allowed to have a will. If one discovers that one's will still exists, one must ask God in treacly worship songs for one's will to be overcome and obliterated.
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What happens if you don't like 'God's will', can you give it back? :_)
Interesting stuff.
Does he go on?
yeah, I think there's a paragraph and change after that...little more than was needed, I thought. But that's pretty much true for everything in the book.
lol, i'd like a page before and after so i can get a grasp of what he means =) ... or maybe i'm just dumb. yea, that's prolly it
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