“Christianity is not about what you believe, its about how you live your life” This type of thinking is very popular among Christians today. Yet as popular as it is, it is fundamentally wrong. It is serious error for at least two reasons.
1) It is a false dichotomy
To argue works over doctrine or action over [...]
I remember saying to a visiting lecturer in class one day “I think the church needs to bring back to the forefront of its mind that the lost are perishing and going to hell and that the proclamation of the gospel is the only way to save them” . Her response? “I think that is [...]
“For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.” 1 Cor 1:18
We live in the age of ‘conversation’ and ‘dialogue’. This is the language of the generation who believe ‘my truth is as good as your truth’. Since no one [...]
We, in Western Europe, live in an age of tolerance, respect, diversity and inclusiveness. Everyone is to be open to the opinions and beliefs of others. Except, of course, any opinion or belief that suggests exclusivity. The world is open to all ‘truth claims’ except absolute truth claims. Anyone who claims to have ‘the truth’ is [...]
This has to be one of the saddest and deadliest myths to have been recieved by evangelicals. The nature of it is subtle and its consequencies are severe. Eternally severe. This myth has been allowd to emerge largely due to, 1)Ignorance or 2) rejection, of the reformation doctrine Justification by faith alone. Or more specifically [...]
