I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

About I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Every kind of religious group has its zealots. Some of us were those zealots. Teenage pharisees. And we bought into the thing whole-heartedly to our own spiritual detriment. We grew up without televisions, pop music, movies, dancing, cards, alcohol, voting and a thousand other little things. We sacrificed these things so as to please God and know Him and be able to share Him with others. We went to church five times a week. Sober-faced, King James Only, Victorian church. And all that really didn't work out very well. We became prodigal's elder brothers, many of us. Unhappy, closed, cold, bitter, disappointed people. Old before our time. People who needed Jesus. This is a look at what it was like to be raised in a very specific sort of church culture. You know the kind: ... a strict, rule-focussed, isolationist, piety pageant. A place where listening to Christian rock is viewed with about as much suspicion as listening to death metal. A place where haircuts and shirts can be charged political and doctrinal statements. A place you learn a great deal about sin, the devil and hell, and what "looks bad," but very little of love and mercy, grace and forgiveness. A place you go to church five times a week. A place where you learn very little about Jesus besides the fact that you sinned and so he had to die for you. A place that seems to encourage you to view him as like a protective mother, stepping between you and an abusive, control-freak father who is going to annihiliate you for breaking house rules, so that the rage can fall on her instead of her children. A place where you learn little about the fact that God makes endless variety and beauty, and sent Jesus. As a gift. Which hurt Him a great deal. Because you don't have to actually teach things that aren't true in order to skew focus and emphasis, and warp perspectives. You just need to have a weird focus that reads the bible more in terms of your own emotional baggage and daddy issues than in terms of what it's trying to say, and what it just plain doesn't. This book takes a look at what was missing in a legalistic church culture of this sort, and what it was like to go out looking for it. What it's like not to throw the Baby Jesus out with the holy water. It has quotes all throughout it from people who experienced different kinds of Plymouth Brethren groups all over the world, including the very scary Taylor-Hales Brethren.

Publisher

Mike Moore

Category

arts · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Jun 2023

Latest episode

10 Jun 2023

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 13: Chapter Twelve : In and Out

   Part Three: Out But Not Down Redefining One's Understanding of "Defilement" Broadening You "Us" to Include More of "Them" Is Worship Style A Racial Thing?

2. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 14: Chapter Thirteen : What Quelled the Ranting

   Part Three: Out But Not Down continues... Legalists Are People Too Pride, Envy and Enemies God and Governments Want Your Charity? The Ordinary, Everyday Nature of Legalism

3. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 11: Chapter Ten : Finding Your Own Way

   Part Three: Out But Not Down Conscience, Sin and the Flesh Higher Standards for Treating Others Making Life Decisions Coming to Terms With Grace Jesus as Law-Bringer? Going After Good Stuff, Instead of Staying Away From Bad Stuff God With You Shame and Self-Punishment Who Are You Now? A Dark, Epic Journey of Transformation and Self-Discovery

4. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 12: Chapter Eleven : Stuff You'll Need

   Part Three: Out But Not Down Outside Perspectives More Than One Kind of Person Boundaries Driving Your Own Car

5. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 10: Chapter Nine : Human Systems (cont.)

   Part Two: Normal's Whatever You're Used To continues... Henry's Pamphlet (ESV: Standard English Version/Modern Language) Jim's Story Sects, Lies and Videotape Systems Seem Threatened By People Seeking Answers Leaving A Group Some People's Stories of Leaving Why Discuss Legalistic Church Experiences? More People's Stories Why Does Legalism Lead, While Love Leaves?

6. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 7: Chapter Seven : The Word of God

   Part Two : Starting to Wake Up Lost in Translations Black and White Thinking Ideas Not Pretending the Bible Says Things The Magic of the Bible

7. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 9: Chapter Nine : Human Systems

   Part Two: Starting to Wake Up continues Shelley's Story What Systems Are For Making Order Division Lofty Claims Henry's Pamphlet (read by Henry)

8. 

   10 Jun 2023

   Episode 8: Chapter Eight : The Rules

   Part Two : Starting to Wake Up continues... Writing the Unwritten Rules Down Devil on Your Christian Shoulder Idols A Higher Standard Than Rule-Following? Kung Fu for Dealing With Pharisees

9. 

   9 Jun 2023

   Episode 6: Chapter Six : Regime Vs. Relationship

   Part Two : Starting To Wake Up continues... Relationship Steps Actually Approaching God Stuff That's Got To Go Addictions I Try to Approach God Harold Talks About Relationships What To Do With Feelings The Number One Thing We Did To Avoid Feeling Our Feelings

10. 

    9 Jun 2023

    Episode 5: Chapter Five : Why A Wrestling Match?

    Part Two: Starting to Wake Up continues... Some Christian Kids Get Messed Up The Answers to Everything Fleeing Normal

11. 

    9 Jun 2023

    Episode 2: Chapter Two : Joining Up

    Part One: Normal's Whatever You're Used To continues... Our Way Is The Only Right Way Which Church Do You Go To? The New Originals Living For The Camera Earning Grace

12. 

    9 Jun 2023

    Episode 3: Chapter Three : Virtue

    Part One: Normal's Whatever You're Used To continues... Blind to Good Virtue = Abstaining From Good? Final Thoughts on the Soil From Which I Sprang

13. 

    9 Jun 2023

    Episode 4: Chapter Four : What's Wrong?

    Part Two: Starting To Wake Up A Missing Sense of Proportion Pharisees and Christianese "Sensible" Voices Modern Pharisees When's It Going To End? Taking the Wheel Christ Instead Of...?

14. 

    9 Jun 2023

    Episode 1: Chapter One : My Roots

    In which the Plymouth Brethren movement is introduced. Part One: Normal's Whatever You're Used To Foreword and Introduction Introduction to God Conversion Experiences Testimonies My Own Conversion Experience Personal Experiences of God Old Stuff Is Holier Than New Stuff The "Other Kind" of Worship Pulled Out Of Yourself.

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