Theology That Bites Back
“Too many Christians think that regeneration, or good intentions, or having a nice personality will somehow make your memory perfect, or will prevent you from getting hit by a truck. Suppose you get hit by that truck, and your heirs and your partner’s heirs are all trying to figure out what that handshake fifteen years ago meant. So write it down. This does not make you suspicious and unloving. God loves us perfectly, and He still wrote it down.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 72
“So not only are they lazy they are also lazy and entitled. And, to apply the old proverb to them it could be raining porridge and they’d have forgotten their bowl.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 70
“The Bible teaches us that cream rises. This is not because cream has anything to boast of, but rather because of how God created and governs His world . . . Cream rises because of the blessing of God. The point is to seek the blessing of being cream, and then secondarily, after that, seeking blessing that comes to cream. You never want to strive to be skim milk, and yet somehow rise like cream.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 66
“If that growing alternative culture is to be Christian, there must be a dogged commitment to the centrality of true Christian education. Education is one of the central instruments given to us by God for the establishment and perpetuation of a culture. And if we want the culture to be believing, then the education that feeds into it must be believing.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 63
“America has cancer bad, and what would be our disease-ridden lymph nodes? The answer to that question is pretty plain, or at least for those willing to repent of the ongoing denial and look straight at the MRI. The answer is our godless educational system, K-12, which is then augmented and brought to a corrupt fruition by our Christless system of higher education. So if you want to get more of what you are getting, go ahead and keep on doing what you are doing. But at least have the decency to stop complaining about what the harvesters keep bringing in from the fields. Who planted that crop in the first place?”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 61
“And so here we are, right on schedule. It turns out that, however you might wish otherwise, you eventually wind up wherever it was you were going. If you get on the plane to Chicago, and I would urge you to follow me closely here, you are going to land in Chicago. We are now arriving where a godless education must necessarily go. The public schools in America were not secular, they were godless.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 59
“We have it on good authority that we cannot harvest figs from thorn bushes (Lue 6:44) . . . Rendering general by induction, we may infer that it is also not possible to gather pink grapefruit from your juniper bushes, or pine nuts from your tomato plants, or lemons from your box hedge. Pursuing the analogy relentlessly, we may also surmise that you cannot send your child to a culinary school and expect to get back a mechanical engineer . . . We often act astonished when we have no right whatsoever to be surprised in any way. We say, wide-eyed with Aaron, that all we did was put in a bunch of gold, and ‘out came this calf’ (Ex. 32:24) . . . And lest I be accused of being too oblique in the point I am seeking to make, you cannot send all the Christian kids off to be educated in a school system that is riddled with rank unbelief, shot through with relativism, and diseased with perverse sexual fantasies, and then wonder at the results you get.”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 55-56
“As we watch this great parade of dunsical folly every night on the news, one thought should come back to haunt us with every fresh insult to right reason. And that thought should be, ‘Who educated these people?’ And the follow-up question should be, ‘And why haven’t they been sacked?’”
Gashmu Saith It, pp. 54-55
“You absolutely have to mortify that internal bookkeeper that meticulously counts how many times you invited and how many times you have been invited.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 50
[Regarding Luke 14:13-14] “Jesus here is getting at the heart of how hospitality can go wrong, when it goes wrong. There are obvious limits here—if you have little kids you don’t want to fill up your house with meth addicts—but at the same time we cannot let our understanding of the obvious limits become something that trumps an obvious text.”
Gashmu Saith It, p. 49
