Our readings in this series are from the book, The Church Captive. Here is a brief excerpt from page 61:
“[Alan Noble insists that our] failure to proclaim the full and true Gospel, as revealed in the Word of God, has encouraged the world to make up or seek to discover elsewhere its own best ideas about how to find the good life: ‘As Christianity has ceased to offer the vision of fullness shared by the vast majority of people in the West, in its place we find billions of micronarratives of fullness.’
“In trying to reach such people, we have adopted the ways of the modern world; but the ‘rhythms and practices of our modern world militate against reflection’, and reflection is essential if people are going to escape their immanent framework and consider transcendent truths. Instead of mimicking our culture, we need to disrupt it by being more authentically and holistically Christian in our personal lives and our worship: ‘A disruptive witness denies the entire contemporary project of treating faith as a preference.’”
Now, and for a limited time, you can order The Church Captive together with the next book in our Read Moore series, Revived!, at no cost. Order copies for yourself and for a study group or companion. A free discussion guide is available as well.
T. M. Moore
