Very clear mapping and landed on a succinct and diagnostically insightful assessment:
1) Liberal Protestantism is the formational path of choosing the loving way of Jesus without choosing Jesus in faith
2) Conservative Evangelicals: This is the formational path of choosing faith in Jesus in a cognitive way without walking the way of Jesus in love. This formational path is being taught implicitly and explicitly by many churches in the USA.
A recapitulation of the past, as you note. Why does intimacy with Christ devolve into inaction, and why does social justice devolve into loss of intimacy with Christ?
I wonder:
* What do you see happening with Catholicism, becoming publicly resurgent alongside this
* What about ecclesiology? The growing number of Evaneglcaisl non-attenders leaning into Christian nationalism for their tribal identity? Those ex-evangelicals, with identity around having left the church and espousing social justice but not doing that with any church community, liberal or otherwise. Are these mutations of the recaputliation by other cultural forces, of social media, consumerism and identity politics?
Very clear mapping and landed on a succinct and diagnostically insightful assessment:
1) Liberal Protestantism is the formational path of choosing the loving way of Jesus without choosing Jesus in faith
2) Conservative Evangelicals: This is the formational path of choosing faith in Jesus in a cognitive way without walking the way of Jesus in love. This formational path is being taught implicitly and explicitly by many churches in the USA.
A recapitulation of the past, as you note. Why does intimacy with Christ devolve into inaction, and why does social justice devolve into loss of intimacy with Christ?
I wonder:
* What do you see happening with Catholicism, becoming publicly resurgent alongside this
* What about ecclesiology? The growing number of Evaneglcaisl non-attenders leaning into Christian nationalism for their tribal identity? Those ex-evangelicals, with identity around having left the church and espousing social justice but not doing that with any church community, liberal or otherwise. Are these mutations of the recaputliation by other cultural forces, of social media, consumerism and identity politics?
So very helpful, thank you
Thanks. I appreciate it.
Thank you, Geoff! You have put the truth so clearly, without ambiguity.
Thank you.