But we want to live out all those big, ancient truths in our modern world.
What does it mean to be a Christian man or woman in twenty-first century America? What does it mean to be a father or mother or boss or employee or professor or student? When do we speak out against the evils of our day, and how?
Some of the Bible’s answers to these questions are more popular than others. We want to preach them all with love—from the pulpit, with our music, and in our lives. We want to be known as a church that is in the world but not of the world. In this age, it can be tricky to do both.
Right now, some of us wear t-shirts, and some of us wear suits. We have a rock band and we say the Apostle’s Creed. We kneel to pray and sometimes we yell “amen!” We trust God to lead us on this journey, because He’s told us where it ends.