Sublime

What’s “believable” has changed, and what we have always believed has been challenged. In response to this, some are eager to offer “updated” versions of Christian faith, revisionist versions of the gospel that are more acceptable, less scandalous—more relevant and less offensive.

Legalistic messages predicated on human wisdom are an insidious trick to keep people in bondage. We don’t mean them that way, but that is the effect. It doesn’t matter if they sound comforting, if we deliver them in blue jeans from stools with lattes in our hands and conclude them with a movie clip. They only prolong spiritual captivity.

There are many “ordinary” ways to be ambassadors of the extraordinary gospel, but none more important than building up the body of Christ by committing to a local church, however boring it may seem. As Kevin DeYoung says, In the grand scheme of things, most of us are going to be more of an Ampliatus (Rom. 16:8) or Phlegon (v. 14) than an apostle Pa

New Testament scholar Craig Evans says:

tertius usus legis,