Category Archive: Incompetent Masses

Apr 03

To Reform or Not to Reform

By John Immel

I started on this article over two months ago, long before the current conversation on www.sgmrefuge.com with Protestant Knight (AKA ~John) advocating reform and Jim’s post Let’s take a poll (1) started on March 23 of ’09. It has undergone substantial changes from the original drafts, but as a writer the time comes to abandon a project. That time has come for To Reform or Not to Reform. What started as a 1500-ish word post turned into this 24-page 9,500 word behemoth with end notes.

I’m a wordy sort…what can I say?

This is a Sovereign Grace Ministries (2) related post. While many of you dear readers have no connection with SGM directly and therefore may be inclined to skip this post, please don’t. The concepts within this post are related to the current trend in American history on the political and religious fronts. Indeed, these fronts are inseparable.… Read the rest

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Dec 01

Borgification of the Church

By John Immel

All tyranny requires these elements:

Universal Guilt

Incompetent masses

Dictated Good

Abolition of Ambition

Collective Conformity

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Some months ago, I ran across a blog article by Cameron Schaefer called Change is a Community Project. His article should be called the Borgification of the Church. For those of you who are not Star Trek aficionados, well…those of us who are will just laugh near you.

I was Locutus of Church. Now I am John free INDIVIDUAL.  My battle cry: Resistance is ESSENTIAL!

But before many of you dear readers can get to the RESISTANCE part, you must first come to understand that it is NECESSARY to resist.  Eventually, we’ll get to WHAT to resist.

Mr. Schaefer is a twenty-something blogger sitting around in his underwear…Oops…I just had an Eric “Phenomenal” Simmons flashback. But the difference between moi and Mr. Simmons is I am going to advocate that you DO read what is being written: right, wrong, or heresy.… Read the rest

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