The are a lot of different kinds of Good News, but there is little good news in “My argument scored more points than you argument.” But the news that “Christ is risen!” really is Good News for one kind of person: The person who is dying.
If Christianity is not a dying word to dying men, it is not the message of the Bible that gives hope now.
This has become one of my new favorite videos ever. You laugh so that you don’t cry (or, if you’re like me, you cry BECAUSE you’re laughing so hard).
Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo.
HT: Internet Monk
What I will do, to my dying day, is work with anyone who knows he was lost but now is found, whose Bible is worn because she repeatedly looks there for God to speak, who finds the Cross the most meaningful of symbols, for whom the Resurrection is not just a doctrine but a power, and who wants nothing more than to find new and creative ways to share the evangel of Jesus in word and deed. I’ll work with these people no matter what scholars decide to call them.
For now they are called evangelicals, and I suspect that in one form or another, they’ll be around for some time.
-Mark Galli, “On the Lasting Evangelical Survival”
The Internet Monk has a very interesting post on the questions: “What would make for a much better evangelicalism?”
Points 1, 6, and 10 are intriguing, to say the least.
I’m part of a denomination that regularly baptizes five, six and seven year olds, then has the nerve to point at infant baptizing Christians and criticize them.
I’m part of a denomination that has rebaptized and rebaptized and rebaptized, again and again. And counted each one somewhere.
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