David Wells on the Albert Mohler Show
Dr. Albert Mohler interviewed David Wells, author of the new book (that I am working through), The Courage to Be Protestant on Thursday, June 5th. I absolutely love this book, and am about halfway through it. I have made the comparison before, but David Wells is in many ways the modern successor to J. Gresham Machen. His unflinching indictment of where Christianity is wandering of to is sorely needed today. The show is a good listen and the book is an absolutely must own.
Here are a couple more quotes from the book that really jumped out at me…
Barna’s conclusion was that most Americans like the security of being able to think of themselves as “Christian,” but most also resist the biblical responsibilities that go along with that claim. For the great majority, he says, being identified as a Christian is more about image than about substance. It is a cultural thing. It is all about creating a pleasing self-image.
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Let us not mince words. If we could see more clearly God in the full blaze of his burning purity, we would not be on easy terms with all the sins that now infect our souls and breed easy compromises with the spirit of the postmodern age. This is what leads to the casual ways in which we live our lives with their blatantly wrong priorities. If we could see this more clearly, the church would be filled with much more repentance and, in consequence, much more joy, and much more authenticity.
(Wells, The Courage to Be Protestant, pp 131-133 )
Here are a couple more quotes from the book that really jumped out at me…
Barna’s conclusion was that most Americans like the security of being able to think of themselves as “Christian,” but most also resist the biblical responsibilities that go along with that claim. For the great majority, he says, being identified as a Christian is more about image than about substance. It is a cultural thing. It is all about creating a pleasing self-image.
….
Let us not mince words. If we could see more clearly God in the full blaze of his burning purity, we would not be on easy terms with all the sins that now infect our souls and breed easy compromises with the spirit of the postmodern age. This is what leads to the casual ways in which we live our lives with their blatantly wrong priorities. If we could see this more clearly, the church would be filled with much more repentance and, in consequence, much more joy, and much more authenticity.
(Wells, The Courage to Be Protestant, pp 131-133 )
