8 Assumptions Pastors Can't Make in a Post-Christian Culture

The way to compensate for this unease and remain in the church is to become obsessed with the how, but in a very different way from Jonathan Edwards. Edwards was concerned with how you did your deeds because they revealed if your affections were holy. If your inner life was encountering the divine presence, then it would be clear in how you lived y

Charismatic and Pentecostal expressions of Christianity have fared much better in the age of authenticity because at a minimum they are entertaining, but at their best they create space for experience—most powerfully, experiences of transcendence.

At the same time, it has never been more important to gather in small groups.

Close Christian fellowship — gathering with others who know us by name, who are our literal neighboring brothers and sisters in Christ, to study God’s Word, break bread, and pray together — is not an optional extra for Christians, but the very source of our life and flouri

But for the congregation to change, it cannot just move from technological acceleration to new practices, forms, and functions. To think it can is to miss a larger issue. What should never be overlooked is that because technological acceleration affects the acceleration of social life, it has moral purchase. In order to speed up and innovate, the c