Lone Wolf Christianity
Thursday, June 10, 2021 @ 10:32 AM
There’s never been a time when the necessity of church and fellowship has been called into question as much as today. I passed by a table of books one day and saw a title that struck me as odd. The title seemed to insinuate that there was a way to follow Christ without ever meeting together with the church body. To be fair, I haven’t read the book so I could very well have misunderstood it. But I have encountered this attitude many times in social media and in person. The attitude of disillusionment with “established” religion and a kind of contempt towards formalized worship. The mantra is everywhere: “Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.”
The Church Advances
Thursday, June 3, 2021 @ 10:44 AM
Whether you saw it in the news first thing this morning or you heard about it in a conversation a few moments ago, it doesn’t take long to encounter the reality of spiritual warfare that rages around you. There seems to be no quiet moment in the battle, at least for those who are intentionally engaged. And all too often we tend to glance at our fellow Christian soldiers in dismay and huddle tightly together as the world seems to grow darker and sin appears to rise victorious.
But is this the picture of spiritual warfare the Bible paints?