Earlier generations of liberal Christianity, according to Gary Dorrien at Union Theological Seminary, were led by men who had a “deep grounding in Bible study, family devotions, personal prayer and worship.” Their calls for reform were made in the context of a belief in “a personal transcendent God . . . the divinity of Christ, the need of personal redemption and the importance of Christian missions.”
That’s the liberal Christianity that helped produce the civil rights movement, for example. We owe this tradition a debt.
So what are we – especially we evangelicals – to make of the decline of the mainline churches? Dr. Timothy George, Chairman of the Board here at the Colson Center and Dean at Beeson Divinity School, has written an excellent article about this and we have it for you at BreakPoint.org. He issues a powerful call to spiritual vitality, theological integrity, humilty, and most of all, prayer.
Read it all.
Eric Metaxas–A Mainline Collapse: The Twilight of Liberal Christianity?
Earlier generations of liberal Christianity, according to Gary Dorrien at Union Theological Seminary, were led by men who had a “deep grounding in Bible study, family devotions, personal prayer and worship.” Their calls for reform were made in the context of a belief in “a personal transcendent God . . . the divinity of Christ, the need of personal redemption and the importance of Christian missions.”
That’s the liberal Christianity that helped produce the civil rights movement, for example. We owe this tradition a debt.
So what are we – especially we evangelicals – to make of the decline of the mainline churches? Dr. Timothy George, Chairman of the Board here at the Colson Center and Dean at Beeson Divinity School, has written an excellent article about this and we have it for you at BreakPoint.org. He issues a powerful call to spiritual vitality, theological integrity, humilty, and most of all, prayer.
Read it all.