They assume, as do most

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

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 it was within a secular 2 conception that American Christianity found the necessary crisis to innovate, and to continue to innovate, creating more reach. This crisis needed to continue to be heralded and obsessed over, the crisis of loss and decline, the impetus to speed up and add actions to the church’s units of time. Secular 2 became the int