T. David Gordon explains in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: Contemporaneity is a value, or a value system, that prefers what is new to what is old. Contemporaneity views the past as passé, and tends to regard it wither with benign disinterest or with outright contempt. Gordon further observes: Contemporaneity is a rarely used word, …

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From a footnote in Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns: I am unaware of any contest for “worst expression ever added to the church’s vocabulary”. If there were such a contest, however, my nomination would be this: reaching people for Christ. This ambiguous expression (which never appears in Scripture) is redolent with positive connotative content, whle …

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