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A Eulogy for the Religious Right
Russell Moore is a Southern Baptist. I listen to this guy and think, “HOW?” He is so balanced on issues… but then people think of me as a label and probably think, “HOW?” as well. THIS IS WORTH THE TIME TO LISTEN. His speech starts around 15:30. It’s worth the time to hear his analysis on the religious right.
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The New Reformation
Let us be finally freed from our hunger for political power.
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From Pathetic to Prophetic
Let us give up the pursuit of the pathetic, where we think a vote is going to solve all our problems.
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My apology for using #NeverTrump
What is ahead for the American church is change. Our problem, for those over 35-40, is we’re doing a bad job in the transition.
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The change needed
As Christians, we bear terrible responsibilities, in our complicities and acquiescence, for a past that has brought us to this condition.
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The loss of “power” and finding POWER
And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling.…
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The beauty and tragedy of Christianity
In all of our cultural coverings, we work so hard to make Jesus “attractive,” his beauty gets lost.
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The calling we have in culture
We must understand the idea, once again, that pastors can indeed be teachers to the nations. This is a tough understanding because we have separated out true spiritual knowledge from “saving souls.”
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Our massive cultural failure
We aren’t producing disciples. We aren’t producing people who follow the character of Christ. As a result, we’ve failed to engage well in our society… and in particular our politics.
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American Christianity
There will be an autopsy performed on American Christianity in the next several years. And we’ll be left with what could have been as a sad epitaph.