Unorthodoxy makes its advance in the face of tolerance and undermines orthodoxy like a slowly creeping paralysis. It does not need to repudiate evangelicalism explicitly because it constantly destroys and overthrows it by more subtle means. Unorthodoxy is always happy to keep evangelical terminology because it simply redefines the terms and makes them meaningless. When words can mean anything they mean nothing.
--John Bunyan (28 November 1628 - 31 August 1688, English Christian writer and preacher, who was imprisoned twice for his ministry) Cited in the 3/18/14 The Berean Call e-mail.
Well (sadly) if that doesn't describe the church today, I don't know what would...
ReplyDelete-Carolyn
"I wonder why Paul never had to resort to such worldly ways..."
ReplyDeleteMight it relate to the fact that he actually considered the gospel to be eternally relevant?