There’s a young Christian person conference going on somewhere in America and our friends at the Rebeloution are all over that like white on rice. All kinds of people are liveblogging the event and it seems like your standard mega-church guitars-and-slick-packaging revival-cum-indocrination, until John Piper decided make things a little hipper and edgier by bringing in the Simpson’s reference.
A Discernment Test
1.) Who is the most God-centered person in the universe?
Answer: God is the most God-centered person in the universe.
2.) Who is upper-most in God’s affections?
Answer: God is upper-most in His affections.
3.) Is God an idolater?
Answer: No. He has no other God’s before Himself.
4.) What is God chief jealousy?
Answer: To be known and admired and trusted and obeyed above all others.
5.) What is the chief end of God?
Answer: To glorify God and enjoy Himself forever.
6.) Do you feel most loved by God because He makes much of you, or because He frees you to make much of Him forever?
Answer: This you must answer for yourself.
7.) Are you God-centered because God is supremely valuable to you? Or because you believe you are supremely valuable to Him?
Answer: This you must answer for yourself.
Lisa, Jr. : Amy said that there are lots of religions. Which is the right one?
Homer : Well, not the Unitarians. If that’s the one true faith, I’ll eat my hat.
Ak : If the Lord is all-powerful, why does He care whether we worship Him or not? Ak just saying.
Homer : Well, Ak, it’s because God is powerful, but also insecure, like Barbara Streisand before James Brolin. Oh, he’s been a rock.
BART (watching a Noah’s Ark movie starring Troy McClure): Whoa, cool! God is so in-your-face!
HOMER: Yeah, he’s my favorite fictional character.