Sublime

Even inside our modern secular age there are ways to have a scope that reaches for transcendence.

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.

Living in the legacy of the countercultural strategy of youthfulness, MTD is a perfectly shaped religious construct to inhabit. As good bourgeois, we affirm the moral, wanting our kids to be good. As bohemians, these moral conceptions don’t need to be deep, for if they’re more substantive, or tied to the wisdom of the past, they may block our indiv

Because now that the whole world has been disenchanted and we have been encased in a flattened “nature,” I expect it will be forms of reenchanted Christianity that will actually have a future.

because of our overexposure to youthfulness, our conception of faith formation has too often followed this expressive (even instrumental) individualism.

a contrast life aimed at communion.

The more we enter exile, the greater the need in the church for true discipleship.

The first change that keeps enchantment down, and in turn delivers a meaning system beyond divine action, is the dis-embedding of God from public life (even the conception that there is something called “public,” in contrast to “private,” is a constructed reality that helps cloud divine action).

So for Edwards, both personally and pastorally, divine action was bound in how you do things. When everyone is concerned with how they do things, flourishing (of capital or in family life) witnesses to our nearness to God.