We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
These protesters, opposing me or our church, they're protesting the eternal Word of God, and guess what - they're not going to be successful in toppling the Word of God.
It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.
True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.
Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.