{"id":33508,"date":"2023-10-19T19:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T02:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=33508"},"modified":"2023-10-22T04:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T11:42:21","slug":"%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b7%d1%83%d0%bc%d1%96%d0%bd%d0%bd%d1%8f-%d0%b2%d0%b5%d0%b1%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b0-%d1%82%d0%b0-%d1%96%d0%bd%d1%88%d0%b8%d1%85-%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b3%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%96%d0%b9-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/%d0%bd%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%be%d0%b7%d1%83%d0%bc%d1%96%d0%bd%d0%bd%d1%8f-%d0%b2%d0%b5%d0%b1%d0%b5%d1%80%d0%b0-%d1%82%d0%b0-%d1%96%d0%bd%d1%88%d0%b8%d1%85-%d1%82%d1%80%d0%b0%d0%b3%d0%b5%d0%b4%d1%96%d0%b9-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u041d\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0443\u043c\u0456\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0412\u0435\u0431\u0435\u0440\u0430 \u0442\u0430 \u0456\u043d\u0448\u0438\u0445 \u0442\u0440\u0430\u0433\u0435\u0434\u0456\u0439 (Ukrainian) – Misunderstanding Weber and other tragedies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u041d\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0437\u0443\u043c\u0456\u043d\u043d\u044f \u0412\u0435\u0431\u0435\u0440\u0430 \u0442\u0430 \u0456\u043d\u0448\u0438\u0445 \u0442\u0440\u0430\u0433\u0435\u0434\u0456\u0439 (Ukrainian) – Misunderstanding Weber and other tragedies<\/p>\n

Part 1: Weber, Capitalism, and me. (Background)<\/p>\n

Part 2: MIS – Understanding Weber.<\/p>\n

Part 3: The Clarity of Clark\u2026Looking at Ukraine<\/p>\n

Slovakia (1995).<\/p>\n

Once upon a time, a Canadian Navigator, surprised me when she said that I operated from a position of \u201cpower.\u201d\u00a0 I was caught off guard.\u00a0 The tone was not of admiration but accusation. At the time, we were expanding the sports ministry work in Bratislava and Devinska Nova Ves. Apparently, she resented the \u201cresources\/money\u201d that I was bringing to the expansion.\u00a0 Once again, the \u201cAmericans\u201d were pushing their way through armed with men, money and material.\u00a0 I thought at first, she resented the U.S. Military assets that I brought to the summer camps we did for latch key kids.\u00a0 Perhaps, instead, she was warning me that I lacked faith in God to provide \u2013 bringing MY plan to supplant HIS plan.<\/p>\n

I let the comment slide.<\/p>\n

After all these years Bebbington, Max Weber and Jason Clark have caused me to revisit this statement as GoodSports International (www.goodsportsinternational.org<\/a>) is being launched by God into Ukraine. It has forced me to evaluate our methodology as we seek what God is already doing there.\u00a0 Henry Blackaby in his book Experiencing God<\/em> warns, \u201cWe don’t choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.\u201d [1]<\/a>\u00a0 God doesn\u2019t need us but invites us to do the good work His servants are already doing.<\/p>\n

My line of thinking began with Bebbington’s quadrilateral, specifically Activism\/Evangelism.\u00a0 How did this aspect of\u00a0 his quad connect with capitalism?<\/p>\n

What is God inviting us to do in Ukraine? Who was already working there? And how were we to support them?<\/p>\n

The issue at hand is money (capitalism?).\u00a0 Is capitalism good or bad? \u00a01 Timothy 6:10 – For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.<\/em>\u00a0 Perhaps not my love of money but using it a first step to interact with Ukrainian ministry programs to take me seriously.<\/p>\n

In short, Ukrainian ministries need funds to do what God has called them to do.\u00a0 I appeal to their need (greed?) and they engage in dialogue with a total stranger.\u00a0 This upsets my wife (rightly so).\u00a0 She argues, rather than leading with the \u201cbait\u201d I should reshape my approach to coming along side\/partnering rather than outright the offer of financing. (Sigh -she\u2019s right of course).<\/p>\n

For some reason I am remembering\u00a0 \u201crice bowl Christians \u2013 noun,: a convert to Christianity who accepts baptism not on the basis of personal conviction but out of a desire for food, medical services, or other benefit[2]<\/a> (See William Damper [3]<\/a>).\u00a0 There is not a direct correlation here, but I see it as a border I do not want to cross.<\/p>\n

Not to minimize the work being done by Christians in Ukraine, my wife argues that the offer of funding burdens ministries causing to behave differently. Interacting with me, they are on their best behavior, and we may\u00a0 have created a layer of relational artificiality.\u00a0 Capitalism (Money) + evangelism =bad?<\/p>\n

Part 2.\u00a0 Misunderstanding Weber.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In short, I misunderstood Weber.<\/p>\n

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism<\/em>.[4]<\/a> He writes, \u201cThere arises thus the historical question: why were the districts of highest economic development at the same time particularly favourable to a revolution in the Church?\u201d (p.4).\u00a0 As I read further in his section Religious Affiliation and Social Stratification, I begin to see his comparison between Catholics (less successful) versus Protestants (more successful). He writes\u2026\u201dthe fact that business leaders and owners of capital, as well as the higher grades of skilled labour, and even more the higher technically and commercially trained personnel of modern enterprises, are overwhelmingly Protestant (p.3).<\/p>\n

I am derailed here. Perhaps Weber does not speak to my dilemma. Money = Bad, Capitalism the “force” behind evangelism = also bad. \u00a0I had to regroup.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Max Weber is hard to read, so clicked on YouTube for the audio-visual\"\"<\/a> version.\u00a0 Lon Schiffbauer, on the Nutshell Brainery Chanel provided a quick synopsis.\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VpipJPba2Zo , Protestant Work Ethic as Told by Max Weber.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Once I had the key points, I went back to Weber to see what he actually said.<\/p>\n

To summarize<\/p>\n

1) At minute – (2:33) Life is short, use every moment.\u00a0 \u201cWaste of time is thus the first and in principle the deadliest of sins.\u00a0 The span of human life is infinitely short and precious to make sure of one\u2019s own election. Laziness and Sloth were considered the worst of sins.<\/p>\n

[Weber, Page 136], note: 26 Hence (op. cit., I, p. 380) its symptoms are carefully analysed. Sloth and idleness are such deadly sins because they have a cumulative character. They are even regarded by Baxter as \u201cdestroyers of grace\u201d (op. cit., I, pp. 279\u201380). That is, they are the antitheses of the methodical life]<\/p>\n

Coming from a background in Hawaii, we can see the products of those immigrating ethnic groups that have a slower\/relaxed approach to work versus those who are in short workaholics.\u00a0 Additionally, because of the great weather, people flock from all over to live in tents on the streets.<\/strong> Laziness and Sloth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) At minute – (2:43) A person\u2019s job is more\u2026it is a holy calling. \u201cFor everyone without exception God\u2019s Providence has prepared a calling, which he should profess in which he should labor\u2026\u201d[It is] a direct consequence of the divine scheme of things.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Weber, p. 106] For everyone without exception God\u2019s Providence has prepared a calling, which he should profess and in which
\nhe should labour. And this calling is not, as it was for the Lutheran,30 a fate to which he must submit and which he must make the best of, but God\u2019s commandment to the individual to work for the divine glory.<\/p>\n

I am drawn back to Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Life.<\/strong><\/p>\n