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Conservativism?

Posted: Thursday Mar 19th | Author: JohnO | Filed under: Contemporary Church, Politics, The Gospel | View Comments

What do you have when you have a person who is…

-passionately against abortion and gay marriage (and able to explain why)
-self-identified as a “conservative”
-able to relate their social, cultural and political beliefs to their beliefs about God
-not distinctively anchored in the historic Christian faith, particularly its beliefs about the authority of scripture, the fall, the church, the Gospel and the Lordship of Jesus Christ. These doctrines seem to play little or no part in this person’s thinking/living.

Is this a disciple of Jesus Christ? Is this a picture of what the church is to produce?

I love the term Internet Monk gave to this: “limbaughization“. The Church is to produce Christians that are thoroughly shaped by the Gospel. And the Gospel is not defined by cultural or political positions in relation to the greater society.


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