Sublime

Young people need churches that are more serious about securing souls than filling up seats. They need pastors who help them to follow Jesus as we Christians live as exiles in this world instead of putting our hope in politicians to make our culture the way it once was.

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

challenge the culture,

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In particular, the Reformers were critical of worship practices that had been effectively “naturalized”—forms of worship that construed liturgical practices as operations of merely human effort.

Es una cultura que está cargada políticamente, dada más al mantenimiento de las puertas que al pastoreo y más enfocada en la adquisición de información vital que en el desarrollo del carácter.

the only way to be productive is to realize we don’t actually have to be productive (our goal is to please God, not appease God), and how the gospel continues to give us peace of mind even when everything is blowing up around us.

The key is to know where we are, and whose we are, and where we’re headed, and not be surprised by the burdens of the road.

“Living Unconverted” Under a Godly Minister