Tullian Tchividjian, grandson of Billy & Ruth Graham and pastor of New City Presbyterian Church offers this much needed word to the church:
"If I were to identify one trend in the church today that concerns me,
it would be our fascination with “fitting in.” The sad fact is, we’ve
come to believe that the best way to reach the world is to become just
like the world. When in reality, we make a difference by being
different. We don’t make a difference by being the same. We need to
remember that it is the calling and the privilege of Christians to be against the world for
the world. In fact, it is, in the words of theologian David Wells,
“those who are cognitively and morally dislocated from worldly culture
that alone carry the power to change it.” Christians should be
encouraged and challenged by the historical reminder that the Church
has always served the world best when it has been most counter
cultural, most distinctively different from the world. I would love to
see a radical commitment to being unfashionable."
HT: Justin Taylor
"If I were to identify one trend in the church today that concerns me,
it would be our fascination with “fitting in.” The sad fact is, we’ve
come to believe that the best way to reach the world is to become just
like the world. When in reality, we make a difference by being
different. We don’t make a difference by being the same. We need to
remember that it is the calling and the privilege of Christians to be against the world for
the world. In fact, it is, in the words of theologian David Wells,
“those who are cognitively and morally dislocated from worldly culture
that alone carry the power to change it.” Christians should be
encouraged and challenged by the historical reminder that the Church
has always served the world best when it has been most counter
cultural, most distinctively different from the world. I would love to
see a radical commitment to being unfashionable."
HT: Justin Taylor
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