The Modern Story of Babel?

“Sometimes I cannot help but think that in the present confusion we face – the so called style and culture wars – the Lord may be reintroducing us to the story of Babel. Here’s what I mean. The theological dilemma of Babel lay in human beings trying to reach the heavens by themselves, through artifactual efforts and in their way. God knew how dangerous this was and how blind the people were to the dangers. His solution, for that time, was to confuse and scatter them. Likewise today, when we spend so much time in our ecclesiastical efforts to do the construction from culture upward instead of from the kingdom downward, we too can become scattered and irreparably confused. We try this and we try that; we copy here and we ‘innovate’ there. All the while, the Holy Spirit is in a holding pattern until we are willing to re-own the triune God and the Author and Finisher.”

Quoted from Harold Best's book, "Unceasing Worship".

HT - Doxologist (Mars Hill)