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(Yesterday on the blog: Who Gets To Rule Our Hearts This Week?)
Lots of churches emphasize the ordinary means of grace, but there’s an important distinction still to be made. “While professing a commitment to the God-ordained means of grace is right and good, it is altogether possible for pastors to neglect vital biblical nuances concerning the administration of the ordinary means. It is obligatory for us to be committed to a right administration of the ordinary means of grace, and not simply that we are committed to them.”
Cool Christianity Is (Still) a Bad Idea
Brett McCracken reflects on his book Hipster Christianity ten years after its release. “It’s telling that the majority of the “hip Christian figureheads” I profiled in the book are now far off the radar of evangelical influence. Donald Miller is a marketing consultant. Mark Driscoll’s Seattle megahurch dissolved. Rob Bell is a new-age guru endorsed by Oprah and Elizabeth Gilbert. And so forth. That many of the names and trends highlighted in Hipster Christianity a mere decade ago are now nearly forgotten (and would be replaced with a
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