One of the biggest obstacles in contemporary evangelicalism is that many of us have been catechized and liturgically formed more by cable news and talk radio than we have been by participation in our local churches.
Cable news & talk radio, from either side of the aisle, breed anxiety, fear, & retrenchment. There is always an enemy at hand who must be destroyed.
This bunker mentality is now pervasive, to the point where Christians can continually mistake confessing friends for foes.
This bunker mentality is now pervasive, to the point where Christians can continually mistake confessing friends for foes.
As I said the other day, suspicion of all authority & speech - insitutional and individual - is thoroughly postmodern. It’s deconstruction. Those (rightly) concerned about relativism in our churches ought to be equally concerned about this clear and present danger.
Again - cable news/talk radio *actively promote* this kind of attitude in the ways that they interact w/ opposing views/individuals. What we end up with is a political life in which we vote for the person who can make my own aims reality &who can destroy the aims of my opponents.
In some of our churches, by not catechizing and liturgically forming our people in the vision of the City of God, we’ve allowed our people to be formed and shaped by the city of man.
Conversely, some of our churches actively attempt to form their people, but folks would rather have political porridge rather than the meat of Word and ordinance.
Brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.
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