Sublime

Modernity has always had a problem with humility because it’s always had a problem with authority (changing things that were once thought unchangeable has a way of quickly inflating your hubris). As a matter of fact, Adam Seligman shows how modernity sought to construct a human civilization built with no external authority that would demand obedien

CHAPTER 10 Evangelism Never Stops

The pastor may have been a heretic or the devil in disguise, but apathy was not an option—demons and devils roamed too close to the self.

If Augustine spent half his life battling the heresy of Pelagianism—the pretension that the human will was sufficient to choose its good—it’s because he saw it as the great lie that left people enchained to their dissolute wills. And no one is more Pelagian than we moderns.

“Our mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ for the

We have the technology, we can do it!”

Paul’s method in Athens is instructive. He understood the culture and employed that knowledge to identify a starting point for building a bridge to the gospel.

Ferment in the Local

Otherwise a church which, seeking for an identity and not preserving its distinctiveness, plunges into a social and political movement, once again becomes the ‘religion of society’.