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still_unsure
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| Posted 1/26/2002 4:47 AM (GMT -6) |   | Hi all:
I'm reading Tommy Tenney's book "the God Chasers" and wondered what you all think of it. I'll post a paragraph:
"He is still just looking for a bride without spot or wrinkle, and we need to remember that He already left one bride at the altar and He'll leave another.
I believe that God will literally destroy the Church as we know it if he has to so He can reach the cities. He is not in love with our imperfect versions of His perfect Church; He is only out to claim the house that God built. If our foul-smelling, man-made monstrosity stands in the way of what He wants to do, then He will move our junk pile aside to reach the hungry. His heart is to reach the lost, and if He spared not His own Son to save the lost, then He won't spare us either."
Comments?
Rob
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Seymour
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| Posted 1/26/2002 8:43 AM (GMT -6) | | I read Tenney's book a few years ago right after I had read an A.W. Tozer book. Tenney, as a writer, is pretty much just a cheap imitation of Tozer without many origional insights of his own. But I remember liking most of the book just because of where I was at at the time and what I thought I needed to hear from God at the time.
If I remember right at one point in the book he says something else similar to the quote you posted. Something about the idea that God left one bride at the alter and that he will leave another one if he has to.
I'm not sure if that's very biblical for many reasons. First of all are Israel and the Church two different brides? Or might the difference be a new name that comes with a new covenant? Just as Abram recived his new name with the new covenant of circumcision might Israel have been transfigured into the church? Even within the writings of John he still used imagry of Babylon and Jerusalem for Rome and the church.
But I would also be interested in hearing what else you know about Tenney. I don't know anything but what I've heard second hand has been mixed. Some say he is a good guy, a real revivalist and that when he preaches "God shows up." Others say that he's more of a cheesy phoney scam artist who isn't a very good actor when he "tries to make his voice sound broken with passion" or something like that.
Check out the reviews of the book at the Great Satan (aka Amazon.com) and you'll see both threads coming thru.
I hear that he is one of the more popular speakers at that pepsicola(tm) church in Florida with a guarantee that you get slain in the spirit or your tithe back!
(Who knows maybe he's a great guy and a lousy missunderstood writer?)
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