Formation: An Ancient Answer to a Present Problem

In this post Daniel Darling voices his concern over some ideas into which many young people are buying. Yet, points out there is an answer, writing, “There is a choice offered to Christians. We can allow ourselves to be shaped and molded by the untruths of the age, we can be tossed about with “every wind of doctrine (Ephesians 4:14), or we can experience true spiritual transformation.”

Preach the Sermons That Algorithms Don’t Reward

“In our cultural moment, so many once-faithful churches and denominations have gone the way of the peddler, untethering from orthodoxy and moving beyond the fruit of the Spirit to get more people in the building. “If we change what God says about sex,” some say, “we’d have a whole new demographic to reach,” while others might say, “If we preach angry hot takes and political rants, we’d have a whole new demographic to reach.” Of course, these logical steps away from orthodoxy and orthopraxy rarely seem overt or brazen to the one making them.”

The Leadership Virtue We Need but No Longer Reward

“We’ve normalized a lack of impulse control among ourselves and our leaders. What’s worse, we’ve celebrated the outburst as the sign of authenticity. We don’t expect decency from our leaders because we don’t delight in decency ourselves.”