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Posted At: 3:42am by Bloghardt
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"How can y'all believe who receive glory from one another, and seek not
the glory which comes from the only God?" (St. John 5:44)
In the name of Jesus. Amen. Don't think that Bloghardt's recent posts mean
that he has lost his joy. Oh no! He's been having tons of fun.
Especially, when things around him are so funny.
Today's quote comes from the
Concerning Self-Promotion & the Gospel thread. In response to my
concerns about the Lutheran Carnival, Orycteropus Afer posted a comical post
entitled
"Pride Goeth Before the Blog."
What a great title for a post! The article is even more comical. OA gives the funniest reason to participate in the carnival: "sanctified pride."
Yes, that's "pride made holy." Do you find that "contradictory?" Sure, it is.
But, it doesn't really matter since the writer of the article wants his name
spelled right in the
Lutheran Carnival. (wink)
"Sanctified pride?" Is that related to "sanctified adultery?" I know! I know! It is it similar to
"sanctified idolatry?" It's related to "sanctified-despising-of-preaching-and-His-Word"
or "sanctified coveting-the-approval-and-attention-of-others." Right?
Imagine the judge in court! "You son, stole that purse. But, I
believe your defense. It's not stealing, it's 'sanctified stealing.'" And today, submit your own post on the Carnival for the sake of
"sanctified pride."
(Bloghardt hits Cwirla's sarcasm light with a smile)
He did not die for us to take pride before Him in anything.
Jesus does not sanctify our sins so that we might continue in them boldly
before Him. No, Jesus washes our sins away in our Baptism. I have no doubt that OA knows this and realizes that I'm just picking on a bad word choice.
He just didn't read
Pastor Peperkorn's Sermon. (smile)
The sin is not posting on some blog, but seeking glory from one another.
How can you believe if you seek glory from men? Sometimes it seems that we
gather together solely for the purpose of seeing whose church is biggest, who is
most important, who can do what for me, did you see what I did, what I'm doing,
and what I plan to do.
Lost in all of it is the Gospel, which the Carnival isn't about. It is about providing an "equal opportunity for confessional Lutheran bloggers to get read." That's called "promotion." When it requires people to submit their own articles, isn't that the very defintion of "self-promotion?" (smile)
Now, I'm not saying that everyone who submits articles to this is
self-promoting. There are some godly men - like
Seminarian Fouts and
Pastor Petersen whose pens are always filled with Jesus Christ crucified for sinners.
(Giant Smile) Then, there are guys like me. So, I offer the following suggestion:
Bloghardt's Suggestion: Have actual readers submit
another blogger's articles. This OA bloke seems like a good choice since he seems to have links to tons of blogs on the side of his blog
(grin). There is also the rather novel idea of looking at other blogs yourself and
finding good articles. Too hard? Well, it's hard work having a good blog.
That's why my big brother Zill
("The Non-Blogging Confessional Cowboy") is at 160 days
without posting (wink)
Now, it is given for us to return to the Gospel.
Today, Bloghardt plays Carnival and submits the following sermon from our own
Pastor Cwirla entitled "The Confession of Rocky Johnson."
In the name of Jesus. Amen.
Edited on: September 06th, 2005 11:26 pm
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Trackbacked On: August 28th, 2005 at 3:52am |
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 6:34am by Stan Lemon [ + ] |
Hey... how come I wasn't picked???
Maybe... we've found the deficiency in our scheme?
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 7:24am by Rev. Todd Peperkorn [ + ] |
Now I would suggest that this whole line of thinking and nomination is itself it's own way of self-promotion. You nominate me if I nominate you.
It seems to me that blogging is almost by definition self-promotion. Why post if no one reads?
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 7:33am by revcwirla |
Blogging is a form of self-publishing, and I guess any form of publishing might be considered ego-tripping. The blog Carnival would be self-promoting what you've self-published, which would be ego-tripping squared.
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 9:15am by Bloghardt |
Eggggg-xactly!
It takes Cwirla in a sentence to put together my feelings. In the midst of all my self-promoting, I get this carnival thing. As I'm about to send my own stuff in, I think, "hey, wait, this is much for even me!"
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 9:17am by Bloghardt |
No No No, Todd.
Stan nominates Madre, Madre nominates me, I nominate you, You nominate Stan, Stan nominates Cwirla, Cwirla nominates Zill.. Good thing for Zill, because no matter what we do, we need to leave Cwirla last. He's not "of" this world. Whoever is after him isn't gonna get submitted. (smile)
OR
I nominate two friends, and they nominate two friends, and they nominate two friends, and they nominate two friends, and so forth, and so on...
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 12:38pm by john pawlitz |
Just put up a big sign at church that says, "All confessing Lutherans stand here!--thank you."
An editor has to use his own discretion and someone has to be responsible for the quality of the blog. Otherwise, rather than achieving perfect unanimity...it has no quality. (Not that it is necessary to state this, but in case it helps, cf. closed communion.)
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 4:38pm by revcwirla |
It occurs to me that a "carnival" in the hands of Bloghardt is more of a three-ring circus. I think we should call this "Bloghardt's Circus."
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 4:43pm by revcwirla |
Now, if I refer to your blog of my blog, that would be ego-tripping cubed, if my math serves me correctly.
And commenting on my own comment beneath my own comment is ego-tripping beyond measure, and an utter waste of time and bandwidth.
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Posted On: August 23rd, 2005 at 5:10pm by Madre [ + ] |
Circus..carnival...just don't forget the clowns. Bloghardt LOOOOOOVES clowns.
And mimes.
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Posted On: August 24th, 2005 at 12:22am by Part-TimeReed |
Bro!!! 9:17 A.M I am becoming more impressed every Time I find you up before noon! Don't worry about BIGDOGGING it!! Bloghardt you Know we Have that agreement about the Boot and if I'm not available RAY is!
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Posted On: August 24th, 2005 at 12:42am by Orycteropus Afer [ + ] |
Circus..carnival...just don't forget the clowns. Bloghardt LOOOOOOVES clowns.
And mimes.
Aardclown
BTW, I'll be responding, again, Bloghardt. It seems we have a deep disagreement on the difference between piety and pietism.
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Posted On: August 24th, 2005 at 12:45am by Orycteropus Afer [ + ] |
Circus..carnival...just don't forget the clowns. Bloghardt LOOOOOOVES clowns.
And mimes.
&^$% BBS code. Give me HTML any day. Feel free to delete my previous post.
Anyhow, Aardclown
BTW, I'll be responding, again, Bloghardt. It seems we have a deep disagreement on the difference between piety and pietism.
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Posted On: August 24th, 2005 at 1:04am by Bloghardt |
Circus..carnival...just don't forget the clowns. Bloghardt LOOOOOOVES clowns.
And mimes.
Clowns. Bloghardt DOES NOT like clowns. Aardvarks, I like. I mean, I like this guy who is posting on my blog. But, no clowns. No clowns ever.
And as a friend taught me at DTBL, the mime... the mime is the most evil of all clowns...
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Posted On: August 24th, 2005 at 11:04am by revcwirla |
"How can y'all believe who receive glory from one another, and seek not the glory which comes from the only God?" (St. John 5:44)
Is that from the TEV (Texas English Version)?
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Posted On: August 24th, 2005 at 6:05pm by Elle [ + ] |
"Bloghardt's Suggestion: Have actual readers submit another blogger's articles. This OA bloke seems like a good choice since he seems to have links to tons of blogs on the side of his blog (grin). There is also the rather novel idea of looking at other blogs yourself and finding good articles. Too hard? Well, it's hard work having a good blog."
Bloghardt, after further consideration, I have to say that I like your suggestion with the exception of one thing: you should be the first to host it using your own suggestion. It's not terribly fair to suggest a tremendous amount of work and then nominate someone else to do it. If you are willing to confirm the confession and willingness to be included in the carnival of each blogger submitted by someone else or sought out by yourself, you are more than welcome to host the carnival as often as you like in the manner you suggest here. As for me, I've hosted several canivals and am keenly aware of how much effort is required for just a bare bones presentation and cannot afford the time it takes to prepare one using the suggestion you offered up, however if you and any other hosts who wish to are willing to put in the time and effort, I see no reason to stand in the way.
For the weeks that you and any other like-minded blogger host the carnival, feel free to open up the submission guidelines to include second-party submissions. Please let us know if you are interested in hosting by emailing us at LutheranCarnival AT gmail DOT com.
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Posted On: August 25th, 2005 at 10:49am by revcwirla |
"It's not terribly fair to suggest a tremendous amount of work and then nominate someone else to do it."
He does that all the time!
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Posted On: August 25th, 2005 at 2:55pm by Orycteropus Afer [ + ] |
A response is posted at Aardvark Alley.
Orycteropus +
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Posted On: August 26th, 2005 at 12:20pm by Bob Waters [ + ] |
It ought also to be reflected that, unlike "adultery" and "idolatry," the English word "pride" as two meanings, one sinful and one not. To forget that is to experience a profound distortion in one's theology on the subject.
And by the way... why the assumption that "self-promotion" is necessarily sinful? Paul and Jesus were both known to indulge in it. Paul could be rather shameless- or would have been, had shame been involved- about tooting his own horn at the expense of the Galatian "super-apostles," Peter, or anyone else who
denied his calling. And despite the fact that He occasionally told folks not to prematurely spread word about His actual identity around, Christ, even in His state of humiliation, didn't go around saying, "Aw, pshaw!" and blushing every time someone was impressed with one of His miracles
Can self-promotion *be* sinful? Of course. It can become "pride" in the sinful sense of the word- an attempt to take credit for one's own cleverness or way with words in a way which does not reflect that credit ultimately back to God, or which manifests a belief that one is better than others. That is nothing other than idolatry. But taking a proper and creaturely pride in one's work- including one's blogging- is hardly the same thing!
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Posted On: August 26th, 2005 at 1:30pm by Bloghardt |
Bob,
Thank you for your comment. Pride comments are very helpful.
I'm not sure I completely agree with your assessment of our Lord Jesus. While He never said "pshaw," (grin), He did clearly avoid any sort of worldly or glory of men. He was content in glorifying His Father in Heaven.
"Not My authority.. Not My Words... the Father is greater than I." He ran from those who would make him King of Blogs and commanded those whom He healed to not announce what He did.
He knew what was going on within men.
Thank God, He died for all men too, even me.
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Posted On: August 26th, 2005 at 7:39pm by Bob Waters [ + ] |
I think you have a point about Jesus, "..who, being by nature God..."
And thank God I'm one of the critters for whom He died, too!
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