I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

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Mike Moore

14 episodes

1 day ago

Every kind of religious group has its zealots. Some of us were those zealots. Teenage pharisees. And we bought into the thing whole-heartedly to our own spiritual detriment. We grew up without televisions, pop music, movies, dancing, cards, alcohol, voting and a thousand other little things. We sacrificed these things so as to please God and know Him and be able to share Him with others. We went to church five times a week. Sober-faced, King James Only, Victorian church. And all that really didn't work out very well. We became prodigal's elder brothers, many of us. Unhappy, closed, cold, bitter, disappointed people. Old before our time. People who needed Jesus. This is a look at what it was like to be raised in a very specific sort of church culture. You know the kind: ... a strict, rule-focussed, isolationist, piety pageant. A place where listening to Christian rock is viewed with about as much suspicion as listening to death metal. A place where haircuts and shirts can be charged political and doctrinal statements. A place you learn a great deal about sin, the devil and hell, and what "looks bad," but very little of love and mercy, grace and forgiveness. A place you go to church five times a week. A place where you learn very little about Jesus besides the fact that you sinned and so he had to die for you. A place that seems to encourage you to view him as like a protective mother, stepping between you and an abusive, control-freak father who is going to annihiliate you for breaking house rules, so that the rage can fall on her instead of her children. A place where you learn little about the fact that God makes endless variety and beauty, and sent Jesus. As a gift. Which hurt Him a great deal. Because you don't have to actually teach things that aren't true in order to skew focus and emphasis, and warp perspectives. You just need to have a weird focus that reads the bible more in terms of your own emotional baggage and daddy issues than in terms of what it's trying to say, and what it just plain doesn't. This book takes a look at what was missing in a legalistic church culture of this sort, and what it was like to go out looking for it. What it's like not to throw the Baby Jesus out with the holy water. It has quotes all throughout it from people who experienced different kinds of Plymouth Brethren groups all over the world, including the very scary Taylor-Hales Brethren.

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Episodes (14/14)

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 13: Chapter Twelve : In and Out

Part Three: Out But Not Down

Redefining One's Understanding of "Defilement"
Broadening You "Us" to Include More of "Them"
Is Worship Style A Racial Thing?

2 years ago

1 hour 6 minutes 49 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 14: Chapter Thirteen : What Quelled the Ranting

Part Three: Out But Not Down continues...

Legalists Are People Too
Pride, Envy and Enemies
God and Governments Want Your Charity?
The Ordinary, Everyday Nature of Legalism

2 years ago

1 hour 25 minutes 23 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 12: Chapter Eleven : Stuff You'll Need

Part Three: Out But Not Down

Outside Perspectives
More Than One Kind of Person
Boundaries
Driving Your Own Car

2 years ago

1 hour 19 minutes 23 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 10: Chapter Nine : Human Systems (cont.)

Part Two: Normal's Whatever You're Used To continues...

Henry's Pamphlet (ESV: Standard English Version/Modern Language)
Jim's Story
Sects, Lies and Videotape
Systems Seem Threatened By People Seeking Answers
Leaving A Group
Some People's Stories of Leaving
Why Discuss Legalistic Church Experiences?
More People's Stories
Why Does Legalism Lead, While Love Leaves?

2 years ago

3 hours 30 minutes 27 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 11: Chapter Ten : Finding Your Own Way

Part Three: Out But Not Down

Conscience, Sin and the Flesh
Higher Standards for Treating Others
Making Life Decisions
Coming to Terms With Grace
Jesus as Law-Bringer?
Going After Good Stuff, Instead of Staying Away From Bad Stuff
God With You
Shame and Self-Punishment
Who Are You Now?
A Dark, Epic Journey of Transformation and Self-Discovery

2 years ago

3 hours 16 minutes 5 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 9: Chapter Nine : Human Systems

Part Two: Starting to Wake Up continues

Shelley's Story
What Systems Are For
Making Order
Division
Lofty Claims
Henry's Pamphlet (read by Henry)

2 years ago

2 hours 28 minutes 43 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 7: Chapter Seven : The Word of God

Part Two : Starting to Wake Up

Lost in Translations
Black and White Thinking
Ideas
Not Pretending the Bible Says Things
The Magic of the Bible

2 years ago

2 hours 5 minutes 44 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 8: Chapter Eight : The Rules

Part Two : Starting to Wake Up continues...

Writing the Unwritten Rules Down
Devil on Your Christian Shoulder
Idols
A Higher Standard Than Rule-Following?
Kung Fu for Dealing With Pharisees

2 years ago

1 hour 29 minutes 59 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 5: Chapter Five : Why A Wrestling Match?

Part Two: Starting to Wake Up continues...

Some Christian Kids Get Messed Up
The Answers to Everything
Fleeing Normal

2 years ago

1 hour 41 minutes 51 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 6: Chapter Six : Regime Vs. Relationship

Part Two : Starting To Wake Up continues...

Relationship Steps
Actually Approaching God
Stuff That's Got To Go
Addictions
I Try to Approach God
Harold Talks About Relationships
What To Do With Feelings
The Number One Thing We Did To Avoid Feeling Our Feelings

2 years ago

2 hours 37 minutes 14 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 2: Chapter Two : Joining Up

Part One: Normal's Whatever You're Used To continues...

Our Way Is The Only Right Way
Which Church Do You Go To?
The New Originals
Living For The Camera
Earning Grace

2 years ago

1 hour 25 minutes 13 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 4: Chapter Four : What's Wrong?

Part Two: Starting To Wake Up

A Missing Sense of Proportion
Pharisees and Christianese
"Sensible" Voices
Modern Pharisees
When's It Going To End?
Taking the Wheel
Christ Instead Of...?

2 years ago

1 hour 52 minutes 4 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 3: Chapter Three : Virtue

Part One: Normal's Whatever You're Used To continues...

Blind to Good
Virtue = Abstaining From Good?
Final Thoughts on the Soil From Which I Sprang

2 years ago

26 minutes 21 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)

Episode 1: Chapter One : My Roots

In which the Plymouth Brethren movement is introduced.

Part One: Normal's Whatever You're Used To
Foreword and Introduction
Introduction to God
Conversion Experiences
Testimonies
My Own Conversion Experience
Personal Experiences of God
Old Stuff Is Holier Than New Stuff
The "Other Kind" of Worship
Pulled Out Of Yourself.

2 years ago

2 hours 39 minutes 56 seconds

I Was A Teenage Pharisee! (audiobook)