“What that first and catastrophic sin of ingratitude ruptured…union…can be repaired by exact inverse of the Garden: lifestyle gratitude …” (Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts, p220)
A friend of mine read the above quote and observed thusly:
"The Doctrines of Ann Voskamp:
Original sin = ingratitude
Result = broken union
Answer = "lifestyle gratitude"
Let's see anyone support THAT with Scripture."I am inclined to agree. On the subject of Ann Voskamp, what I keep hearing is, Hey look, nobody has perfect doctrine, why are you picking on poor Ann? And my point is.....doctrine matters.
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Doctrine (teaching) matters. Scripture says so.
Mat 28:19 "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
2Co 11:3 But I am afraid that,
as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray
from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.4 For if
one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive
a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you
have not accepted, you bear this beautifully.
1Ti 6:3 If anyone advocates a different doctrine and
does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the
doctrine conforming to godliness,4 he is conceited and
understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions
and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language,
evil suspicions,5 and constant friction between men of depraved
mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.
Rom 16:17 I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for
those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that
you have been taught; AVOID THEM.
Eph 4:14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed
to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human
cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
2Jn 1:8 Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what
we have accomplished, but that you may
receive a full reward.9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in
the teaching of
Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching,
he has both the Father and the
Son.10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring
this teaching, do not receive him
into your house or give him any greeting, 11 for
the one who gives him a greeting
participates in his evil deeds.
2Tim. 4: . 3 For the time will come when men
will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their
itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from
the truth and turn aside to myths.
Titus 2: 1 You must teach what is in accord with sound doctrine.
Isa 45:19 …I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what
is right.
John 17: 17SANCTIFY THEM IN THE TRUTH; Your word is truth.
More on Ann Voskamp
From Sola Sisters' Cathy Mathews, who says in part:
Because Ann Voskamp appears to have been profoundly influenced by Christian Panentheistic Mystics, if the recommended reading list from her blog is anything to go by, and is also herself introducing Christian women to this concept of Panentheism in her book One Thousand Gifts, albeit a highly poetic, eroticized, "Christianized" version of Panentheism:
The Christian’s Secret of A Happy Life (by Hannah Whitall Smith)
Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home and Celebration of Discipline (by mystic Richard J. Foster)
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Summertime–A Manual for Prayer and The Divine Hours, Volume II: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime (by emergent leader and mystic Phyllis Tickle)
Spiritual Disciplines Handbook (by "female pastor" and mystic Adele Ahlberg Calhoun)For those who aren't familiar with what Panentheism is, Panentheism is a worldview that embraces the view that God is "in" everything: in humans, in whales, in giraffes, in sand, in the ocean, the wind, the mountains, the stars, and on and on. In this worldview, God is reduced to being an essence, an energy, a vibration, that permeates and gives life and energy to all things. Panentheism is part of the eastern worldview (Hinduism, Buddhism, etc.) and is NOT part of the biblical worldview. The Christian worldview is that we are "dead in our trespasses" (Eph 2:5), while the eastern worldview is that we all have a "Divine inner spark," and at least some aspect of God/Divinity inside of us, regardless of our faith (Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, etc.).
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