According to several studies, American evangelicals generally do not
know what they believe and why they believe it. Consequently, most share
with the wider culture a confidence in human goodness and a weak view
of the need for God’s saving grace in Jesus Christ. According to these
reports, most evangelicals believe that we are saved by being good and
that there are many ways of salvation apart from explicit faith in
Jesus Christ.
Here are a few of the disturbing trends that need to be checked and reformed in contemporary church life:
1. We are all too confident in our own words
We are all too confident in our own words, so that churches become
echo chambers for the latest trends in pop psychology, marketing,
politics, entertainment, and entrepreneurial leadership. We need to
recover our confidence in the triune God and His speech, as He addresses
us authoritatively in His Word.
2. We are all too confident in our own methods
We are all too confident in our own methods for success in personal,
ecclesial, and social transformation. We need to be turned again to
God’s judgment and grace, His action through His ordained means
of grace. Continue at Michael Horton
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