CCC Service
“Discern. Stand. Walk. – Critical Theory" | August 29 | 1 Corinthians 13:1-7
1 Corinthians 13:1-7 ESV
1. Understanding Critical Theory
a. Came out of Marxism
b. Demands division
c. Requires "Progress"
“critical theory and intersectionality is based upon the idea that society can only be liberated if the existing structures are overthrown and the existing structures are claimed to be deficient because they were put in place for immoral reasons, that human liberation can only come by overthrowing what exists in order to get to a new liberated age.”
Albert Mohler
1. Understanding Critical Theory
a. Came out of Marxism
b. Demands division
c. Requires "Progress"
d. Weaponizes experience
e. Assumes the worst
"it is the denial of guilt that is seen as proof of guilt.”
Voddie Bauchum
2. How is it ANTI-Scriptural
1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV
2. How is it ANTI-Scriptural
a. Counter to bearing, hope, belief, and endurance
b. Counter to communally experienced joy and sorrow
c. Counter to the notion of personal responsibility
Ezekiel 18:19-20 ESV
2. How is it ANTI-Scriptural
a. Counter to bearing, hope, belief, and endurance
b. Counter to communally experienced joy and sorrow
c. Counter to the notion of personal responsibility
d. Stirs a heart of destruction
2 Corinthians 5:18 ESV
2. How is it ANTI-Scriptural
a. Counter to bearing, hope, belief, and endurance
b. Counter to communally experienced joy and sorrow
c. Counter to the notion of personal responsibility
d. Stirs a heart of destruction
e. Eliminates God or repositions Him as oppressor
3. How should we respond?
a. Acknowledge oppression and hate it
b. Live in accordance with love
c. Refuse victimization
Victims can do nothing but lament what has been done wrong to them. Victors rest in Jesus and press forward in his strength seeking peace, and reconciliation. Never at the expense of truth but in love armed with it.
3. How should we respond?
a. Acknowledge oppression and hate it
b. Live in accordance with love
c. Refuse victimization
d. Experience doesn't shape truth, facts do
e. Only one reconciler
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