Tue 12 Sep 2006
The Jesus Meme
Posted by tom cottar under theology
The term "meme" ( [miːm], not "mem"), coined in 1976 by Richard Dawkins refers to a unit of cultural information that can be transmitted from one mind to another. Dawkins said, Examples of memes are tunes, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
What, then, is our problem?"
What, indeed. Why are so many people today Christians only because they found Jesus before they found other Christians?
In his unique, Sweet style, Len states "We don’t need more time off to meditate and medicate, to conference, to "re-imagine." That’s like a doctor prescribing a summer on the French Riviera for a bankrupt banker. We need a fresh outpouring of the Spirit that created the church in the first place. We need to replant the faith in the rich, biblical soil from which it’s been wrenched."
Sweet Jesus and Amen. He closes the article saying, " The Jesus Meme is not a possession you wield, but a life you yield."
It's not about getting our way, but His way. And, in the words of Tesla, "it's not what you've got, but what you give."
Thoughts?
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September 12th, 2006 at 8:19 pm
I haven’t read the article yet, though I’ve long been familiar with the general idea of meme. Even subscribed to a one-time intermittent essayist list on the topic some years ago.
I had an immediate counter-thought to the above. So many more people today are Christians in spite of finding other Christians first.
September 12th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Now I’ve read it and I probably found this my favorite line:
Resonating throughout the gospels and the letters of the NT as well as the writings of the early church is the central them of Christianity as given us by Jesus. Love God with all we are by following Jesus and love others. The promise of Jesus through himself and now through the Spirit as well seems to me to be that if we do that and allow it to shape our lives, our wrong beliefs and understandings will work themselves out in time. How else do we begin to explain the Apostles and early church leaders?
September 12th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
Sounds like chili to me