Sublime

As Western culture increases its speed in the race away from Christendom, as hostility to orthodox and evangelical Christianity increases and becomes increasingly legislated, we will eventually see a separation of the men from the boys. Which pastors will cave to worldly wisdom in fear for their own livelihoods and comfort, and which will fear God,

Partiality to loved ones is justified because it is an essential ingredient in one of the highest of human goods.”

God wants relationships, and for that, God has to create a world that is other than God and human beings within it who are also other than God.

when Christians sacrifice for one another and live in unity, they make more plausible the theological truth that the Father sent the Son into the world on a mission to create a loving community filled with his Holy Spirit. The love of the church can make our three-in-one God more plausible to the world.

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