{"id":135523,"date":"2025-03-11T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135523"},"modified":"2025-03-12T06:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T10:11:21","slug":"come-as-you-are-is-not-a-slogan-for-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135523","title":{"rendered":"(CT) On Stanley Hauerwas’ new book–\u2018Come as You Are\u2019 Is Not a Slogan for the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In her introduction to your latest book, <\/strong>Jesus Changes Everything<\/em>, Tish Harrison Warren mentions something many Christians are concerned about: that we live in a post-Christian world. She\u2019s wondering if we actually are living in a <\/strong>pre<\/em>-Christian world and whether that might not be such a bad place to be. What\u2019s your take on the time in which we live and the opportunities in front of the church?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the mainstream Protestant church is dying. And I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a bad thing. It makes us free. I mean, for some time people argued that the world would go to hell if it were not Christian. That may be the case. But being Christian doesn\u2019t mean you need a Christian America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I think we\u2019re experiencing is the ultimate working out of nihilism, which so often goes with liberalism. Liberalism is the presumption that you should have no story except the story you chose when you had no story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>

In an interview with @Plough<\/a>\u2019s Charles E. Moore, Stanley Hauerwas meditates on the necessity of the gospel, the politics of the kingdom, and the high demands of sanctification.https:\/\/t.co\/XI9F2ySH5C<\/a><\/p>— Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) March 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>