16 February 2020

Cultural Christianity or Antithesis: The Means of Sanctification and the Tools of Kingdom Growth (Part 2)


The Sermon on the Mount is a profound section of Scripture and yet it is one that sacralists actually take great exception to. Not openly of course but it is striking that it is the very words of Christ that they really struggle with the most.

Cultural Christianity or Antithesis: The Means of Sanctification and the Tools of Kingdom Growth (Part 1)


In a recent piece I cited a quote from Dominionist teacher and Charles Colson protégé John Stonestreet wherein he suggested that cultural Christianity has real benefits. It's better for people to go to church even if it's for the wrong reasons. And by implication it's better for people to go to a bad, theologically compromised church than none at all or to have those churches disappear from the street corner.

02 February 2020

The Hospitality Argument Regarding the Angels and Sodom


The ancient Greek myth regarding Philemon and Baucis tells the story of an impoverished couple visited by Zeus and Hermes in the guise of men. The gods had already traveled through the area and had received no hospitality. The poorest and most destitute household, that of Philemon and Baucis welcomed the gods and were even willing to slaughter their precious goose in order to put on a proper spread.