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hold views on various spiritual and moral subjects that directly conflict with the biblical witness. If their beliefs conflict with true Christianity, it is likely that their lives conflict as well.
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
Discipleship requires humility as we build the kingdom by building people. It forces us to listen to and learn from voices we might not otherwise have heard.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
Wouldn’t it be nice if post-evangelicals decided to devote at least some of our worship and study time to developing healthy and mature expressions of human rational capacity, rather than just one more Bible study?
David P. Gushee • After Evangelicalism: The Path to a New Christianity
the nature of this reach with social media demands an open platform, not a platform of closed discourse as with email.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
With Rosa and Charles Taylor, I’m maintaining that our shared and contested sense of the good life is fundamental to our ways of being in the world. Therefore, I agree that technological acceleration has shifted the imagination of the church.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
The Reformation asserts that what matters is not what you do but how you do it.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God

Muller began by distinguishing conservatism from orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is the view that there exists a “transcendent moral order, to which we ought to try to conform the ways of society.”34 Christians who look to the Bible as a guide for legislation, like Muslims who want to live under sharia, are examples of orthodoxy. They want their society to ma
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
We need to be very careful about thinking that a Christian necessarily looks and acts a certain way.