![]() Hate, dissension, and contempt flood our news feeds daily. I’m blown away by the support shown!Īnd, without giving too much away, if you are looking for a work to support that will offer premium, exclusive content… well, stay tuned.In our impossibly fractured culture, we live with the tension of disunity every waking moment. And to those who subscribe and those who already have - thank you. I am not soliciting paid subscriptions, but the option is available to those who would like to. So, I’m thinking for now the paid subscription will include a private Q&A or chat post accessible to paid subscribers as a “thank you.” I’ve never wanted to write an article and essentially say “Here’s some material I think is very important for today’s Christian - and it’s all yours for the low price of $7.99 a month!” I’m not quite sure what to do with it for now. ![]() However, I received enough requests for a paid option that I went ahead and turned it on. I didn’t intend to use the paid subscriptions option until I began to share chapters of my next book, and even at that I only intended to make the chapter posts locked to help fund the production of the book. Is Christ Lord of all, or Lord of a little?ĭoes His Lordship impact the way you live your life? Without practical, meat-and-potatoes teaching on such matters, you can’t have a shared culture.Īnd without a shared culture, you can’t have anything beyond the shallowest of unity. He has no intention of exercising Lordship in those parts of their lives. ![]() I see it as two people who can’t possibly work in the same direction on anything - “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” (Amos 3:3)Īnd more importantly, I see it as the church reassuring both people that Jesus doesn’t care about their beliefs on any of those things. Some view this as a picture of the beauty of the church’s unity. You can sit next to someone on a given Sunday who disagrees with you on marriage, children, economics, race, politics, men’s roles, women’s roles, sexuality, dress, the value of human life, and basically anything else that doesn’t directly impact what you do at that Sunday worship. Once again, we’ll leave it at “ love God, love others ” and avoid the specifics. This is how you end up with a Christian literally labeling it “heresy” to say that marriage and childbearing are normative principles for the large majority of Christians, with dozens of others handwringing that anybody would dare say anything beyond “let everybody do what they want.”Īnd this is why you see big churches, influenced by the likes of “successful” megapastors like Tim Keller and Andy Stanley, jumping through all kinds of hoops to make people of all kinds of political and moral persuasions comfortable in their buildings. The less you teach, the more people there are who can agree with it. As I’ve written here, there’s a strong incentive to stay out of teaching the Bible’s specifics. Unfortunately we live in a time of theological minimalism. And it should be highly distinguishable from the world around us. ![]() And if so, what are the hallmarks of that culture?Īnother way to put question one is, if every person in a given geographical area converted to Christ, would you expect a distinct look and feel that separates them from the towns around them? (Think the Amish, for a real-world example.)
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