On Monday, we talked about the relationship between Christian hedonism and historic reform

theology.

Today, we look at your fears and your hopes for this movement, Pastor John, when you're

gone.

The question comes in from a friend of the ministry who asks, this, Pastor John, it seems

to me that after someone comes along with a paradigm shifting theology or philosophy,

like you have done with Christian hedonism, one of two things can happen with the next

generation that takes up the cause, one, they can lose some of the balance of the original

provocatively over emphasizing certain aspects and minimizing certain qualifications or nuances,

and thereby distorting it, or two, they can go deeper with the theology or philosophy

applying it to areas the original champion could not or did not.

As you think about the future of Christian hedonism, Pastor John, when you're off the

scene someday, are there a some dangers that you would call the next generation to avoid,

be some areas you hope they would explore in greater depth or application, Pastor John,

what would you say?

Let's do dangers first, because in a sense, you could say that what needs to be done

positively is avoid the dangers.

Dangers are everywhere, everywhere, and that's true with every single doctrine in the Bible.

There are no truth claims that are not surrounded by potential distortions of that very truth.

So nothing unique about Christian hedonism here.

Every single truth in the Bible is beset with imminent distortion by the perceptions of

the human heart.

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