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This revolution is required in order to get from the unstated and almost always uncontested assumption of our contemporary society that autonomy and choice are necessarily and of themselves both possible and ultimately good to the biblical view that autonomy (understood in the sense of being independent from God in our judgements and evaluations) i
... See moreChristopher Watkin • Biblical Critical Theory
“Even if a group of people can agree on how to treat people in the moment, consensus can change at any moment. Today’s virtues can become tomorrow’s vices. Like a sand castle, the tenets of morality can be destroyed by the tide of public opinion.” — David Pernell
Placing trust in the personal God of the Bible and having knowledge of his truth are essential to Christianity.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
In all roles theologians are committed to that form of existence arising from Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They know that
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
we hear him calling the church to locate itself at the midpoint of various polarities,
Amos Yong • The Gospel and Pluralism Today: Reassessing Lesslie Newbigin in the 21st Century (Missiological Engagements)
Throughout church history, there have been apologists and theologians who have so thoroughly conformed the gospel to the assumptions of their day that they lost its most essential tenets.
Josh Chatraw • Apologetics at the Cross: An Introduction for Christian Witness
And I include myself in the criticism. We as the American church need to take more ownership for our collective sin, our obsession with things that will not make an ounce of difference in heaven, and our failure (past and present) to stand up and speak up for the poor, for the stranger, for the ones who don’t look like us.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Those who do see it as a problem often perceive it as a self-enclosed species, disconnected from this broader purview of the age of authenticity. Without this broader view, MTD seems like a weed growing among our orthodox and biblical conception of faith; we imagine MTD as a plant that shouldn’t be there—but this is our deception. MTD may not be a
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
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.