"Membership in the family of God is neither inconsequential or something to be casually ignored. The church is God's agenda for the world. Jesus said, "I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it." The church is indestructable and will exist for eternity. It will outlive this universe, and so will your role in it."
- Rick Warren
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Best thing I've read today:
Preach from the Bible, and from the Bible only. Again, does this need to be said? One thing's for sure. The Bible is fascinating, disturbing, offensive, sweet, alarming, comforting, stretching, shocking, controversial, caressing, strengthening. No way are you and I that interesting. Let's put the Bible front and center and let it be itself and do its thing, whatever the impact. Submerging the Bible for the sake of our cool personas isn't really cool at all. It's a way of avoiding risk, chickening out.
From this outstanding post by Ray Ortlund.
Very well put! I have not known so many "lead" pastors that give up truth for the sake of being "cool", but I have known a great many youth pastors that have! Is that just my personal experience?
My opinion: the coolest pastors are the ones who aren't "cool", but are just because you can see so much of God in them.