Thanks, Jason. I’m an Episcopal priest, and while none of this Rapture stuff is part of our doctrine at all, it’s so hard-coded into the DNA of so many that it feels like an uphill battle and a complete undoing of what people THINK is right when we’re trying to do just basic teaching on what Jesus taught.
I appreciate your breakdown on what Jesus says (“I’m coming back here”) about making this world right and “whole” and the Kingdom of God replacing the kingdom of humans, but, y’all, that’s a hard thing to preach when people are certain that grandma is up in Heaven playing bridge or Grandpa is hitting the links.
Anyway, I appreciate this conversation, and I need to get my hands on a copy of the book, even though I only know the Evangelical movement from a distance.
Yall are losing mind/heart share to this s**t and you need to use this book (and Jason) to help leadership of your mainline brethren to understand why it's time to stop fighting over same-sex marriage and focus on the real threat.
Or just read the book and tell people about it, I guess.
I'm a Lutheran and I have not expressed gratitude for Culver's since the last time I ate at McDonald's, which was yesterday. Is that recent enough? I would hate to be Left Behind because of a thoroughly mid cheeseburger.
I just finished your book and I’m happy to subscribe to you here, but I have two completely random comments: (1) I grew up in York, PA, and I get the feeling the book is set far too close to there for comfort, and (2) the last four digits of my primary credit card are 0666, which I refer to as the Credit Card of the Beast. If you wind up using that in your next book, please let me know so I can brag about it to my wife.
Yeah that's really close to what I had in mind, though really the setting is either "church" or "the post-Augustinian West." I only threw in a few words of geography so nobody would assume it's set in the South and therefore "just Southerners doing Southern stuff"
That makes sense. As we used to say, "Pennsylvania is Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Alabama in the middle." Some people just called the area near me Pennsyltucky.
“… He’s the one who set into motion the Rapture concept we know and love today, the belief that Good Christians will suddenly be levitated/transmogrified/yoinked elsewhere …”
Thanks, Jason. I’m an Episcopal priest, and while none of this Rapture stuff is part of our doctrine at all, it’s so hard-coded into the DNA of so many that it feels like an uphill battle and a complete undoing of what people THINK is right when we’re trying to do just basic teaching on what Jesus taught.
I appreciate your breakdown on what Jesus says (“I’m coming back here”) about making this world right and “whole” and the Kingdom of God replacing the kingdom of humans, but, y’all, that’s a hard thing to preach when people are certain that grandma is up in Heaven playing bridge or Grandpa is hitting the links.
Anyway, I appreciate this conversation, and I need to get my hands on a copy of the book, even though I only know the Evangelical movement from a distance.
Well my friend you're about to know it from deep within
Market share, my man, think market share.
Yall are losing mind/heart share to this s**t and you need to use this book (and Jason) to help leadership of your mainline brethren to understand why it's time to stop fighting over same-sex marriage and focus on the real threat.
Or just read the book and tell people about it, I guess.
I'm a Lutheran and I have not expressed gratitude for Culver's since the last time I ate at McDonald's, which was yesterday. Is that recent enough? I would hate to be Left Behind because of a thoroughly mid cheeseburger.
I think I'll go today just to be safe
This was so good. I want to rub it in the face of every one of my Rapture Ready Relatives.
Let's do it
Just poppin by to say effing eytch you're such a good writer. That's all, carry on.
I just finished your book and I’m happy to subscribe to you here, but I have two completely random comments: (1) I grew up in York, PA, and I get the feeling the book is set far too close to there for comfort, and (2) the last four digits of my primary credit card are 0666, which I refer to as the Credit Card of the Beast. If you wind up using that in your next book, please let me know so I can brag about it to my wife.
Yeah that's really close to what I had in mind, though really the setting is either "church" or "the post-Augustinian West." I only threw in a few words of geography so nobody would assume it's set in the South and therefore "just Southerners doing Southern stuff"
That makes sense. As we used to say, "Pennsylvania is Philly on one side, Pittsburgh on the other, and Alabama in the middle." Some people just called the area near me Pennsyltucky.
To give you an idea of how slow I am at reading books I intend to read, I'm almost done with Sinful Seven! But I can't wait to dig into the new one
I am about halfway through the book and I can't put it down. Just finished the Beach Fest chapter. I am really enjoying it.
Uh, 616 is bad too? The area code for Grand Rapids, where I live? Are you saying the Dutch Reformed are the Antichrist???
Calvinists? Yes probably
“… He’s the one who set into motion the Rapture concept we know and love today, the belief that Good Christians will suddenly be levitated/transmogrified/yoinked elsewhere …”
“Yeeted” was right there, man.
Not my problem