“For we are, alas, only too familiar with alluring prophets. We have seen them crumble into fragments.
We have seen them bring the Wholly Other into disrepute, by being themselves no more than ‘very strange.'” Karl Barth
Over on Pyromaniac a while back, there was s a discussion of the role of prophecy in the modern church, which began with Rubber Prophecies and a brief account of two of the “very strange” pseudo-prophets bouncing them. It’s amazing what a wide-ranging and informative overview you can get in the comments that followed.
Since then, we’ve had the Strange Fire brouhaha and the resulting fallout.… Read the rest