I can see, then, why so many TRUE CHRISTIANS™ want to turn faith into a feeling rather than measuring it through compliance. This move eliminates compliance as a tangible measurement of faith. That’s good, since most Christians could never qualify as faithful that way.
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.
ABS is being as subtle as a truck fire in State of the Bible 2022.
Thom Rainer has come out with yet another blog post trying to staunch the hemorrhaging blood from evangelical churches. This time around, he’s attacking Christian pastors who make excuses about boosting church attendance.
Out of every bit of Christianese I’ve heard lately, this might be one of the chirpiest and most annoying.
Evangelicals have long ago figured out ways to change whatever they want in the Bible.
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.
That tribe cannot and will not change its collective opinions about marriage and family. That’s why it’s so much easier for its Mark Ballenger types to dump all this emotional ego-searching on the people who can’t fit into that life script.
Technology has nothing to do with evangelicals’ lack of wisdom or their disobedience. We can lay both of those problems at the feet of evangelicalism itself.
Thought stoppers are super-meaningful-sounding statements that don’t actually say anything substantive—and can’t really even be defined at all. The further into wackadoodlery a flavor of Christianity is, the more thought stoppers we’ll find there, and for good reason.