Sublime

Perhaps most alarming is that the majority of the young people interviewed in this study were unaware that they were practicing something different from historic Christianity. They assumed that the way they see God is the way Christians have always seen God. Yet what they adhere to is a hollowed-out version of Christianity that places self as the c

The “ages” triad is the movement from what Taylor calls the ancien régime to the age of mobilization to the age of authenticity.

I also believe that for the sake of discipleship it is crucial to immerse oneself in a community of practice that exhibits the reformative potential we’ve been describing. Your heart is at stake.

It was Arendt who showed me that Augustine was a cartographer of the heart.

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There is a social on-ramp of experiencing loneliness, making new friends, or having a spouse who wants to go. • There is the church on-ramp of missing church or finding a good church or pastor. • There is the God on-ramp of hearing from God or lamenting distance from him. • There is the philosophy of ministry on-ramp of finding a church that takes

Four out of every ten young adults who were church regulars as teens fall into this category. These are young adults who reflect the zeitgeist of their generation, trying on every worldview, lifestyle, and pathway that is open to them, majoring on experiences and relationships rather than on truth and restraint. They are flexing their independence

together. Jesus risked his reputation and the credibility of his story by tying them to how his followers live and care for one another in community (John 17:20-23).