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What’s Your
Script?
1. Kingdom2. Crucifixion3. Resurrection--------------------
Holy Spirit
The Good News
NineteenTheses
Walter BruegemannWalter Bruegemann
1. Everybody lives by a script. The script may be implicit or explicit. It may be recognized or unrecognized, but everybody has a script.
2. We get scripted. All of us get scripted through the process of nurture and formation and socialization, and it happens to us without our knowing it.
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3. The dominant scripting in our society is a script of technological, therapeutic, consumer militarism that socializes us all, liberal and conservative.
4. That script enacted through advertising and propaganda and ideology, especially on the liturgies of television, promises to make us safe and to make us happy.
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5.That script has failed. The script of military consumerism cannot make us safe and it cannot make us happy. We may be the unhappiest society in the world.
6.Health for our society depends on disengagement from and relinquishment of that script of military consumerism. This is a disengagement and a relinquishment that we mostly resist and about which we are profoundly ambiguous.Walter BruegemannWalter Bruegemann
7. It is the task of ministry to de-script that script among us. That is, to enable persons to relinquish a world that no longer exists and indeed never did exist.
8. The task of de-scripting, relinquishment and disengagement is accomplished by a steady, patient, intentional articulation of an alternative script that we say can make us happy and make us safe.Walter BruegemannWalter Bruegemann
9. The alternative script is rooted in the Bible and is enacted through the tradition of the Church. It is an offer of a counter meta-narrative, counter to the script of technological, therapeutic, military consumerism.
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Movies•I Am Legend: zombies take over the earth•Deep Impact: comet is on target to hit the earth•The Core: the core has stopped spinning and the earth is
about to be torn apart•Armageddon: an asteroid is headed for earth•The Day After Tomorrow: climate change freezes over
large parts of earth•Independence Day: aliens invade and
conquer the earth•The Matrix: machines have taken over
the earth and use humans for batteries•War of the Worlds: aliens take over the
earth and kill everyone•Crimson Tide: nuclear war is about to
happen starting with a submarine
Movies•War Games: a kid hacks into a computer game and nearly
starts a nuclear war•The Sum of All Fears: gotta stop nuclear war between the
US and Russia before it starts•Terminator 2: robots taking over the world •Transformers 2: robots taking over the world (again)
News stories•Avian flu•Swine flu•Economy is crashing•Planes crashing•Global Warming•Tsunami•Earthquakes
News stories•Hurricanes•Terrorist attacks
Advertising•You deserve some chocolate•You need to be on a diet•You need extra strength medicine
(watch the side effects)•Buy our doohickey it will make you cool•Buy this car and you will be safe•Buy this car and you have sex appeal•Chew this gum & you’ll have white teeth•Eat this cereal and you’ll live forever•Take this depression medication and
you’ll be happy
Government•Need to make the world safe for democracy•Need to stop the communists•Need to stop the terrorists•If we just conquer this nation then we’ll be safe•Blind patriotic allegiance•Myth of divine origin along with God’s
blessing on all decisions•Demonization of the enemy•Spend money (tax returns)•“peace and safety”
TV Shows•It’s normal to live and sleep with people
that you are not married too
TV Shows•Men are buffoons incapable of leading their homes•Women should use their sex appeal to get ahead in life•Technology will save us by helping us to solve unsolvable
crimes and cure incurable medical problems Gospel•hopeful not pessimistic•motivated by love not fear•characterized by abundance not scarcity•an anchor in tough times •gives us lasting purpose rather than
creating our own little fleeting purposes•makes sense of morals rather than
merely social rules to be followed orrebelled against
what do you think about a lot?
how do you feel about your past?
do you feel a sense of purpose for your life?
what do you spend your time doing?
what do you bring into your mind?
what do you do for fun?
what do you spend your money on?
how do you feel about the future?
how much does faith impact your overall life?
What Are Your Driving Forces
The Gospel Is Not OnlyThe Gospel Is Not Only
• something that causes forgiveness of sin• something to be believed• something to be shared with others• something that brings hope into your life
It Is Also a New Way of LifeIt Is Also a New Way of Life• it calls us to change how we see God,
ourselves, others, and the world• it calls us to embody the kingdom now by
following the way of Jesus