Sublime

A Theocentric Approach to Life, Ministry, and the Gospel

Consistent, committed attenders used to go to church three times a week. Now, according to experts like Thom Rainer, it’s approximately three times a month. In some places, twice a month (not twice a Sunday) is considered the new normal.

This has profound implications for the way we do everything in church, from the strength of our relationships, to

We’re called to love people more than we love being right, but being right theologically rather than being in right relationship with our neighbor has become the defining identity of the church.

Today, blindness to the truth about the human person has led to a crisis of family, community, and opportunity. But then as now, we see clearly the Church’s latest intellectual and cultural challenge: not primarily the nature of God or redemption, but of man and human flourishing.

This conception of time—this “sliding” between generations—fundamentally rejects the atomism assumed by individualism, a conception of both self and community that makes each individual a discrete unit. The Bible is riddled with second-person plural pronouns that situate us in a communal reality, and that community is continuous across time.

has Reformed theology become just one more tool for coping with our secular age?