Tuesday, December 6, 2011

12/6: Konquering Koinonitis: 1)Song of Moses 2)Ear>Eye

YOu know the question. This time it's the "Dream Team" trailer:

"Devotions" from Jon Acuff  with a direct Exodus connection (if you are intrigued by the, uh, provocative title..it';s explained .  here.):                      
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Question for today and Thursday:


How do the following Exodus/Deuteronomy themes help us steer clear of koinonitis and towards a missional communitas?:


  • 1)Song of Moses
  • 2)Ears>Eyes
  • 3)Shema and Trinity
  • 4)Excluded Middle
We did the first two today, the last two are for tomorrow.
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    We noted there are THREE sections/songs in Scripture called The Song of Moses.
    We read all three and compared them,  How are they all in a sense the same song?

    Some nores you made:

    Exodus 15                       Dueter 32                    Rev 15
     Praise                               Justice                     Praise
    Victory                               Warning                 Victory
    Kingdom began               Kingdom threatened        Kingdom come
    Earth                              Earth                             Heaven
                                  "Rock" mentioned 7x

    The first two are 4) years apart.
    The same phrase shows up in the 2nd and 3rd: "Just and true"

    We noted that in  way siimilar to  teh entire second sermon of Moses , the Deut 32 song is structured like a Hittite treaty between suzzerain and vassal (see last week), in a lawsuit form.
    Such a document from an offended suzzerain coulkd take two forms:
    1)a call to war
    2)an invitation to restoration.
    The song looks like the  2nd,

    More info


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     Ear>Eye

    We watched an episode--"Ears To Hear" from Van Der Lann's series Walking with God in the Desert:

    Eyes were Egypt: images
    Ears are how God trained Israel in desert: through voice.
    Even teh Hebrew word wilderness/desert is related to the word "Hear".

    We followed up with this discussion of "ears over eyes":
    Jesus: " If you have ears to HEAR then hear"
    John 1: in the beginning was the WORD
    2 Cor 5:7: We walk by faith not by SIGHT
    Rom 10:17 Faith comes by HEARING
    Hebrews  3:15 Today if you HEAR his voice, harden not your heart (Thanks, Katie E.)

    And of coutse, THE Scripture of the whole Pentateuch: The SHEMA  ("HEAR" "LISTEN")..of Deut 6.

    String theory: Life, and the universe, at base is SOUND, better yet, a SONG!

    Len Sweet  ( "string theory [means] then life is at base music..For anything that vibrates gives off sound..so..you and I..are at base a song.. There is no one who isn't musical..My personal definition of Jesus is 'God's perfect Pitch.’")

    Acoustemology..an exploration of sonic sensibilities, specifically of ways in which sound is central to making sense, to knowing, to experiential truth. "
    -    Feld

    "It's time church leaders developed a philosophy of soundness, even a sound spirituality.
    -Leonard Sweet, "Summoned to Lead"
    Sweet:


    "Voice-activated leadership moves from vision to vibration, from eye to ear "
    ""in the modern worked, Truth was eye-opening. In the postmodern world, where voice has replaced objectivity, truth is ear-opening." 



    How does sound connect to surrender?
    "Sound confronts us with interiority, Craig Matson suggests,"To hear is to relinquish our place as sovereign spectators and managers in the world and to position ourselves in medias res as morally obligated and mortally vulnerable hearers of the word."
    -Craig Matson


    Related:

    A Theology of Sound
     

    "The Divine Voice: Christian Proclamation and the Theology of Sound.

    Listen for the sound only young people can hear
    Cioran on music/mysticism

    God as Sound

    Sound and String theory


     Leonard Sweet: Summoned to Lead  (click the link and type the word SOUND in the search bar once there


    Several posts on spiritual hearing
    Question:
    So how do
    1)Song of Moses
    and
    2)Primacy of Ear/Listening


    keep us missional?


    Think about it, and stay tuned>


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    Previews: next class we'll ask the same question about two more phenomena:


    1)Excluded Middle:

    Law of excluded middle - 

     

    Flaw of the excluded middle     (or non PDF form here)

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      1)Trinitarian/Missional basis of the OT::

      What do you learn  from the Exodus and Deuteronomy references in Wright's article here  that help you see how missonal/evangelist God was/Israel was called to be even when they could well have green tempted to be ingrown/get koinonitis/bask in their chosenness?

      More? Here he is on video (see OT section 15:57ff)

      More on the tab above marked "Moses and OT Missiology"
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      God as Trinity, and missional in and of himself:


      C.S. Lewis:
      "If God was a single person,
      then before the world was made,
      he was not love."
      -C.S.Lewis, "Mere Christianity," p. 131,,
      also cited in Steve Seamands' "Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service," 163, online here





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        Wow, am I impressed. I thought coined the term "cultural masturbation" in this 2006 post..(:

        But obviously no one less than NT Wright was reading. (:
        He uses the term in this new video about social networking and blogging:
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