Dispensationalism
Well Nate and Wally, i figured you are probably the olny to readign this so instead of e-mail i figured i would just respond to your question(Nate) as a post.first off when i said dispensational upbrining, i in no way meant you guys, i would say that your far from dispensationalists. I guess i was using the term loosly in my last post, when i was describing my upbringing as being dispensational. I guess i shoudl re-word my statment and say that my thought process leaned twards dispensationalism, because of my expereinces through church as a kid and in jr high, and high school. Im not sure if this was anyones fault but my own, Whenever we woudl do something with ministry it just seamed like it was either recomit your life to jesus or give your life to jesus for the first time. It was ll about getting in to heaven and tryign to get a couple of notches on your belt by gettign others to coem with. When we evangelized it was through a turn and bur type senario (this was in early jr high)
Therfore i was pretty much starting to feel like God only worked through plucking the heart strings so that we would pray a certain prayer of salvation and be in, he didn't really do more than that. This was the way i viewed god, it was a tad dispensational, in that i belived that God really didn't do miracles, and if he did it would never hapen, to or through me.
In high school i guess i started to get introduced to some wider veiws of God, and that if you pray for stuff you might actually get more than just spiritual kudos form your bible teacher. However you guys know that i have ha some real problems with doubting if God is even real, and i wasn't even convinced that God coudl even work through prayer. Later on in life, like right after college, i pretty much belived that it was alla waste of time, and every time we would pray i would secretly be thinking nothing is going to happen, althogh i hoped it would. Workign with watermark, i started to open my eyes a little, and i do thank you guys for that.
When i was workign under Dan he taught me a lot about beign in a relationship, and that these relationships wheren't about just getting them to say a prayer.
Nate when we started meeting you ripped me out of the shell i was in a strated me on a new path. Now im just tryign to learn as much about God as i can, now that i think he might actually be real..ya know. so when i said a dispensational up-bringing i gues i meant that i had become a bit dispebsational. because of my up-bringing. Sorry for the confusion, i hope i didn't offend anybody. I am looking forward to coming home in a couple of weeks.
Peace, Willis
posted by Mike Willis @ 6:10 PM
1 Comments:
i am not offended at all. my question wasn't in anyway personal.
i was just wondering what you were trying to say... b/c i know that adale wesly is not dispensational in belief. i realize that the lack of ackowledgement of "miracles" may lead you that way on your own, but the wesleyan church as a whole is far from dispensational.
now you know that i am NOT a wesleyan before i'm a follower of Jesus, you know that, but i think most (i did say MOST, not all) of the wesleyan theology is pretty good.
but really can ANY theology capture the true being and heart of God? i think not. can God's will be put into a book and a book alone? if so, we as "church workers" just need to help people read that book and get good at doing a book report right?
i guess by that reality that would make mr. graham the greatest theologian of all time. oh and by mr graham, i'm talking about my 8th grade english teacher, not the white haired evangelist!
by the way willis. for the record i am dispensational.
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