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A biblical companion to the happy life!Learn how Gnostic dualism invaded the church, killed the party and taught you the world was evil.Religious mindsets of dualism have blinded us to the God-given joys and pleasures of this world. We have often separated our spirituality from earthiness. But did Jesus really condemn all enjoyment of this world? Is God the creator or the enemy of this worlds delights?In this scandalous upcoming book, John Crowder exposes the encroachment of Gnosticism over 2,000 years of church history ... the idea that the natural, material world is somehow evil and at odds with our spirituality. He makes the case that God is pro-party, and that Biblical guidelines of morality are issued to preserve and enhance our joy - never to diminish it. Hitting the most controversial, real-life topics imaginable - money, sex, alcohol and more - Crowder exposes unbiblical religious parameters that have worked against us. Legalisms that, instead of curbing sin, have actually caused it to increase!In the Incarnation, Jesus Christ baptized the material world - erasing every notion of separation between the natural and the divine life.Experience a life of wholeness, gratitude and recover your appetite for scriptures as you see the Bible through the lens of a happy God!
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MONEY.
SEX.
BEER.
GOD.
by JOHN CROWDER
Sons of Thunder Ministries & Publications
Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Money.Sex.Beer.God. by John Crowder
Published by Sons of Thunder Ministries & Publications
P.O. Box 40
Marylhurst, OR 97036
www.thenewmystics.com
Phone: 1-877-343-3245
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This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without prior written permission of the publisher, except as provided by United States of America copyright law.
Copyright 2016 by John Crowder
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2016903904
International Standard Book Number: 0977082660
Printed in the United States of America
Special acknowledgments to Pierre and Johane Morin, Lily Crowder and Brandon Tripp for your contributions to editing.
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Dedicated to G.G.E.
Your fellowship has been an inspiration.
Utinam decidat Dominus mihi testiculos,
si umquam fidem fallam.
Your fellowship has been an inspiration.
Utinam decidat Dominus mihi testiculos,
si umquam fidem fallam.
In memory of
Marvin and John Crowder Sr.
who showed me from an early age the humor of life
and Rosalyn Parker for whom I carry on our
lineage of circus people.
Marvin and John Crowder Sr.
who showed me from an early age the humor of life
and Rosalyn Parker for whom I carry on our
lineage of circus people.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
The Life of the Party
In the beginning, God opened His mouth and out spilled galaxies, sea horses, pineapples, beaches, little girls, cinnamon trees and the laws of physics. He was enthralled by the whole bonanza and took a day off to admire the artistry of His craftsmanship. The Father, Son and Spirit had orchestrated a grand jamboree of lightning bolts, barracudas and plum blossoms, replete with Vivaldi, Chopin and Led Zeppelin guitar riffs. The eternality of her Creators delight was echoed in the blueprint of creations design, in untold billions of unique human fingerprints and infinitudes of unmatched snowflakes each a distinct Picasso, falling unseen from human eyes in the blistery heights of the Himalayas.
He called the whole thing good. From Him came wine to drink, money to blow and rollicking genitals for frisking about and carrying on this whole business of creating. It was all a big, lavish bash engineered to reflect His eternal gladness.
God is pro pleasure. Mankind was created to dwell in the bliss of Gods presence in Eden. Eden literally means pleasure or voluptuous living . Humanity was not designed for depression, toil and the curse of a fallen world. Deep within, humanity longs for the ultimate satisfaction for which we were made to drink of those rivers of pleasure flowing from His side forevermore (Ps. 36:8, Gen. 2:10).
There is something innate within us that resonates with the truth we were made for the fun of it. Religionists wrongly attribute the desire for pleasure to the sinful nature . Yet the sinful nature was that fallen Adamic delusion that we could find ultimate satisfaction outside of God.
Christians have often viewed the heathen world chasing after gratification and thus concluded that the pursuit of happiness is inherently wrong . Furthermore it is often stated that the believer should attempt to crucify and kill off his appetite for pleasure. But the heathen also have noses on their faces. Does that mean we should cut off our noses because the pagans have them? No there is a God-shaped hole in the heart of every man that cannot be quenched with lesser loves. The church, seeing the epicurean chase for sensual fulfillment all around them, has attacked the longing for happiness itself. Any number of legalisms and attempts to suppress our God-given yearnings only cause a perversion of those appetites and cause sin to increase (Rom. 5:20).
But be sure that human feelings can never be completely stifled. If they are forbidden their normal course, like a river they will cut another channel through the life and flow out to curse and ruin and destroy, writes A.W. Tozer.
People unknowingly pursue materialism, substance abuse and promiscuity in a misguided chase to recapture this lost sense of satisfaction that only the presence of God can provide something man inherently remembers from the garden. Sin offers any number of momentary indulgences which are followed by devastation to health and homes, ending in broken families, poverty, suicide and destruction for future generations. There are countless billboards offering the promise of satisfaction in this world, but if you are going to be a real hedonist a true pleasure seeker you must inevitably embrace Jesus. He is the fountainhead of all delight. Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be (Heb. 9:11, MOF).
Surely all our fountains are in Him. Christ alone can satisfy the eternal thirst of mankind. But a Pandoras Box of confusion opens up, laying waste to our lives in this question: does our embrace of Christ mean a complete disconnect from the delight of this world around us? We have recognized that He is transcendent above creation. But we have missed the reality that He is immanent and tangible within and through His creation! So often (for fear of abuse or idolatry) the church has encouraged us to radically forsake the earthly bounties of this planet.
In rightly warning us to reject (in fact hate) the perverse, fallen worldly system we inherited in Adams fall, Jesus never exhorted us to spurn the world itself the very thing we are in but not of is the very thing the Trinity so adamantly loves and sought to redeem (John 3:16).
Religion Hates Materiality
The humanity of Jesus is a litmus test for orthodoxy. It tells us that God finds this material world to be worthwhile valuable enough to permanently unite Himself with it in the incarnation. Religion has always built a business on attacking the natural, physical world. Starve yourself silly with fasting, because God hates food. Do not drink. Stay single. Take a vow of poverty. No drums in the worship band. Do not enjoy anything .
Religion never wants you to figure out that creation is good and to be relished in Gods presence. Fr. Robert Capon writes, To be sure, God remains the greatest good, but, for all that, the world is still good in itself. Indeed, since He does not need it, its whole reason for being must lie in its own goodness. He has no use for it; only delight. The world is no disposable ladder to heaven. Earth is not convenient; it is good; it is, by Gods design, our lawful love.
In recognizing that Christ is our ultimate delight (in principle), still we have unwittingly divorced Him from the world around us. He must be distant. Our fragmented minds have attempted to partition God off from our natural, earthy existence. A massive fracture exists between our spirituality and our daily life. While mouthing the words God is good we foster a lingering suspicion that He is not authentically good. Perhaps He is good in that sort of spooky, inhuman way that divine beings must be. But there is this lingering sense of otherness to God. He is not good by our own earthy definition of the word (perhaps good for us like cough medicine, but not in a relatable ecstatic sense of gummy bears and waterslides). While theoretically we recognize a need for Him, there is still a contorted view that God is intrinsically against our humanity . Lurking in our theological closet is the idea that He is both distant and against our happiness .
This otherness of God is bolstered by innumerable religious fears that He is the supreme Ego who cannot be supplicated. He demands retribution and sits far away aloof and non-sympathetic to our day-to-day affairs. We project our own fears, condemnation and human hatred onto our image of Him, essentially inventing a caricatured entity of G.O.D. Inc., which is a distant spectre of a deity who cannot possibly relate to our real-time joys of living. Dont make me come down there!
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