Sublime

While it’s one thing to make the gospel message as accessible as possible, it’s quite another to allow the thought forms of a given culture to change the gospel. Be warned: If taken too far, apologetics can negotiate away the very soul of the church, the very heart of Christianity.

These are the two main standards the early Christians used to decide what books to include—was it written by an apostle, and was it a book worth dying for?

the Christian progressives’ mission has become about political, economic, and social transformation. There’s no reason to seek and to save the lost because they believe nobody is lost. God is not offended by sin; Christ died as an example, not as a sin offering.

He knew that there were peddlers of God’s word who thought “godliness is a means of gain” (1 Tim. 6:5–6). But he refused to do anything that would put him in that category: “We are not, like so many, peddlers of God’s word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ” (2 Cor. 2:17). Too many prosperity

Augustine represents the Christianity Camus doesn’t believe, which might make him more Augustinian than he realizes—and might make us more Augustinian than we imagined. An Augustinianism sans grace might nonetheless be a gateway.