Os Guinness on Evangelical relevance

'Evangelicalism has never chased relevance more determinedly than it does now. And yet, we've never been more irrelevant. That could be purely accidental, and other factors are behind it, but I would argue that we've pursued the wrong type of relevance. We've fallen captive to modern views of time, progress, timeliness, and relevance. They're leading us down a garden path.

There's nothing wrong with relevance. The gospel, of course, is relevant. But modern views of relevance are dangerously distorted and they'll lead us into trouble. The Bible meets every person's needs. It's never out of date, never old fashioned, and it's always relevant. So I'm not attacking true relevance. Instead, the problem is this modern idea of relevance. I've argued in other books that the church is being shaped by the modern world.'

Read the entire article at:
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/augustweb-only/8-25-22.0.html

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