Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, much of the church is choosing, at this very moment, to become more light and shallow and entertainment-oriented, and therefore successful in its irrelevance to massive suffering and evil. The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in [...]
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The Popular God of Fun-Church
Posted in Christ and Culture, John Piper, contextualization, irrelevance, suffering on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pathetically Marginal
Posted in Os Guinness, comfort, hypocrisy, irrelevance on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“In the decades I have followed Jesus, second only to the joy of knowing Him has been a sorrow at the condition of those of us today who name ourselves His followers. If so many of us profess to live by the gospel yet are so pathetically marginal to the life of our societies and [...]
