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The “host” culture is changing faster than most of us (inside and out of the church) realize.
John S. Dickerson • The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare
Primarily, she had a grave concern for unrepentant sinners, one of the strongest marks of true Christianity.
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
a capacity to adapt to current conditions is a sign of life – many of the oldest Christian Churches gave plenteous evidence of continued vitality.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
faithfulness requires innovation and cultural agility. At the same time, we are called to be the one people of God, enduring over time, serving the One who is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
James K. A. Smith • Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
The problem of nominalism described above requires that we adopt a spirit of humility and self-examination before the Lord.
Douglas Allen Sweeney • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
What God does, people should not seek to undo.
Andrew T. Walker • God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity?
Christian scholars are called to help the body of Christ live faithfully at these intersections.
James K. A. Smith • Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture
The margins of power may not be attractive or comfortable, but we take heart in the fact that God used Christians mightily in the early church in that context, and he is still doing that today in the global East and South. We can be the city on the hill without being on Capitol Hill.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
they’re signs that we’re following the risen Christ and not just treating our therapeutic needs.