8 Assumptions Pastors Can't Make in a Post-Christian Culture
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8 Assumptions Pastors Can't Make in a Post-Christian Culture
Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
American Christianity is a story of perpetual upheavals in churches and individual lives. Starting with the extraordinary conversion experience, our lives are motivated by a constant expectation for The Next Big Thing. We’re growing bored with the ordinary means of God’s grace, attending church week in and week out. Doctrines and disciplines that h
... See moreAt that point, I began to observe that our politics and culture had changed. I began to feel differently about our surrounding secular culture, and noticed that its attitude toward Christianity was not what it once had been. Aaron Renn’s account represents well my thinking and the thinking of many: There was a “neutral world” roughly between 1994–2
... See moreBeing a Christian is a way of life that is too susceptible to looking back and slowing down. Its moral tradition is assumed to be too restricting. Christian faith has a very different conception of communication, transportation, and production than the constant pursuit of new innovation.