Carl Trueman’s article on ‘The Real Scandal Of The Evangelical Mind’ to which I posted a link yesterday can also be found in the 9Marks eJournal, January/February 2010, Volume 7, Issue 1.
Here’s the link to the pdf or the link to the onsite version.
The issue deals with: ‘The New Evangelical Liberalism’.
From the introduction: ‘A question for evangelicals to ask themselves is, has the way we think about church prepared us for compromise? The challenge for churches, we’re told, is striking the balance between isolation and assimilation. Usually, this translates into, “Change your church structures and the way you talk, but not your doctrine.” The trouble is, changing our structures and the way we talk changes the way we think, because words and structures shape thinking. For instance, change how you talk about the gospel and your congregation will think differently about the gospel. Change what membership means, to use another example, and your congregation will begin to understand the inclusiveness and exclusiveness of God’s love—and so God himself—differently.’
People end up where they are because the followed a path. The fuzzy sub-biblical and non-biblical material that infests many churches exists as a result of earlier steps. You just don’t get out of bed one day and start shilling Doritos.
Justin Taylor provides all the article titles, authors and introductions here.
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