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%STORIES REPORT TESTIMONY PERSONAL COMMUNAL RENEWAL+990220
%WITNESS INTEGRITY HEALING RECONCILIATION GROWTH+990220
%TRANSCENDENCE RELIGIOUS SPIRITUALITY INSTITUTION+990220
%DOCTRINE CONFESSION RITUAL POWER POLITY GOVERNMENT+990220
%CONTROL ISSUE ADDICTIVE CODEPENDENT DISCIPLINE SIN 990220
In their beginnings many religious groups focused
upon their stories of persona/communal renewal, growth,
transformation, reconciliation, integration and trans-
scendence of old ways, traditions and collusions. People
were authentically moved by surprising personal
experiences of renewals --- experiences which transcended
their best intentions, technologies, techniques, plans and
systems. They were motivated to share the good news of
experienced possibilities for personal and communal
renewal.
Many religious groups have become institutionalized
in ways which have led them to forget to tell personal
stories of renewal, transformations, integration, growth,
reconciliation and transcendence of old ways, traditions
and collusions. They have settled into patterns of
successful: traditions, recitations, rituals, habits, and
conventional proprieties. The believers believe that
they have sufficient knowledge to recognize the difference
between "good" people and "evil" people --- for they have
eaten of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil --- which they found in the middle of the garden
of good living. In differing ways they have become
certain that they are right. Their differing forms of
certainty have become their means for making alienative
distinctions between who has been "saved", and who
is "dammed". They have forgotten about telling their
own personal stories of surprising occasions of:
healing, reconciliation, cooperation, renewal,
transformations, transcendence and growth.
Forgetful people try to figure out how to succeed and
achieve the "good" life which seems to be always just
beyond their manipulative grasp. They seek to develop
better techniques for extending their grasp and better
ways to hold onto whatever they get their hands on. They
find that the tempting fruits which they reach for ---
continue to rise beyond the reach of their most highly
developed technologies. They cannot achieve for
themselves the kind of security, salvation,
satisfaction, fulfillment, meaning, or peace --- which
they believe that they deserve to have and hold on to.
They cannot let go of their visions of self-sufficiency,
independence, and security through invulnerability. Thus
they create various forms of hell --- from which they
cannot escape on their own.
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