“When Jesus Christ died on the cross, He secured the salvation of all His elect. The love that He displayed there could in no way be described as an attempt.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 60
A Function of Our Dwindling Pride
“Afflicted with pretty much everything the modern church is certainly looking around for remedies. But where and how we look for these remedies remains a function of what ails us, and we are not yet desperate enough to ask for directions to the divine pharmacy.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 59
Full and Overflowing
“The average Christian bookstore, which reflects accurately what we are about, is an abundant cornucopia of bushwah.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 57
Limited Supplies
“In the meantime, modernity, that once proud heresy, has visibly started to topple. Postmodernists are running around gleefully, just like looters after an earthquake in a great city, but postmodernity’s self-confessed parasitic relativism means that it has a cultural staying power which can be measured in weeks. After the looted Twinkies® run out, everyone will be hungry again.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 56
Not the Gospel Moment We Think It Is
“The evangelical world is still sitting under modernity’s table, eager for any crumbs that may fall our way. The big news down here is when some rock star or other intimates that it is possible that, under certain conditions, he might believe in a divine being other than himself, we snatch it up eagerly and feast for weeks.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 55
Held While Preaching
“When Christ speaks to the churches, the double-edge sword comes out of His mouth, and His ministers are held in His right hand as He preaches. This is what gospel authority means. Jesus speaks the Word while He holds the men speaking it.”
To the Brim
“A revival of formal worship filled with doctrine, laughter, glory, and light would be the first step to a remarkable transformation of the nation.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 54
Many Waters
“When we open our Bibles to read the Word of God, or attend worship in order to hear it declared, we should feel like we are standing on a rocky beach near the base of Niagara Falls. God’s Word fills all the available space.”
Tokens
“Formal worship does not create a secular/sacred distinction; it obliterates it. I give one day in seven because all seven are His. I give ten percent because one hundred percent is His.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 53
That Woman Jezebel
“We think that it is a virtue to tolerate, forgetting that the Lord Jesus rebuked a church for tolerating that woman Jezebel. Everything hinges on what we are tolerating, and our global love for smooth words indicates that what we are mostly tolerating is our own hardness of heart.”
The Cultural Mind, p. 49