Comments on: Random Links 57 http://sivinkit.net/archives/1630 happenings in my head and heart this side of heaven Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:00:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Sivin Kit http://sivinkit.net/archives/1630#comment-1301 Sivin Kit Fri, 02 Sep 2005 02:50:23 +0000 http://sivinkit.net/archives/1630#comment-1301 dbctan ~ I suppose especially when this kind of "marketing" lingo is overused and becoming a little to "messianic" for my taste is where I get worried. I use it in humor but not without suspicion. Because I believe our reigning mental models need to be anchored more Biblically and theologically expecially in times where languuage has become manipulative often for personal gain or fame. I agree with the accent on persons and personal language (keeping the communal dimension close by) because at the end it's abut people isn't it?. I applaud the recovery of the ancient without being nostalgic. dbctan ~ I suppose especially when this kind of “marketing” lingo is overused and becoming a little to “messianic” for my taste is where I get worried. I use it in humor but not without suspicion. Because I believe our reigning mental models need to be anchored more Biblically and theologically expecially in times where languuage has become manipulative often for personal gain or fame.

I agree with the accent on persons and personal language (keeping the communal dimension close by) because at the end it’s abut people isn’t it?. I applaud the recovery of the ancient without being nostalgic.

]]> By: dbctan http://sivinkit.net/archives/1630#comment-1300 dbctan Tue, 30 Aug 2005 06:53:14 +0000 http://sivinkit.net/archives/1630#comment-1300 no, i am not comfortable with marketing lingo either and i can tell you its harder for me coming from a personwho works in the media-marketing-ad industry. david wells' "wasteland" comes to mind, and i do think we need to resist consumerist tendencies ("Consumer is king")that are usurping the Spirit's role. EM Bounds: "men look for methods, but God looks for men - men of prayer." sure we need to be relevant, meet felt needs, etc, but somewhere along the line we have to be careful that the final word about felt needs and relevance comes the Word that undergirds 'the old-time religion.' i know, i know - makes everything sounds positively jurassic. no, i am not comfortable with marketing lingo either and i can tell you its harder for me coming from a personwho works in the media-marketing-ad industry. david wells’ “wasteland” comes to mind, and i do think we need to resist consumerist tendencies (”Consumer is king”)that are usurping the Spirit’s role. EM Bounds: “men look for methods, but God looks for men - men of prayer.” sure we need to be relevant, meet felt needs, etc, but somewhere along the line we have to be careful that the final word about felt needs and relevance comes the Word that undergirds ‘the old-time religion.’ i know, i know - makes everything sounds positively jurassic.

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