Christianity Today, 2009, Volume 53, Numbers 1–12
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“So, given this cultural setting, any salvation that needs a sophisticated sales pitch is a salvation that won’t really do anything. It will make you holy the same way a new pair of Nikes makes you athletic—which is to say, not at all. It only changes your religious brand. Yet this is the only kind of evangelism possible when we separate salvation from life in the redeemed community, because it’s in the redeemed community that God has ordained the enduring demonstration of his power, against which nothing can prevail (Matt. 16:18).” (Volume 53, Number 1, Page 23)
“Spiritual shoppers have no reason to think that Christianity is anything but one option among many. But the life of a holy church is a powerful witness to the contrary—perhaps most evidently in our celebration of the Lord’s Supper, when we remember that the one we consume has already consumed us. The church reveals the supremacy of Christ in a world that denies his power when—crediting it all to God—we love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, reconcile seemingly intractable hatreds and rejoice even in sorrow, persevere in hardship and serve to the point of sacrifice, and baptize and teach instead of consume and discard.” (Volume 53, Number 1, Page 25)
“How do we convince people who are dedicated to self-creation that life is really about the grace and power of God? Perhaps the answer is to be found in the recognition that consumerist self-creation is, in the end, a search for meaning. We therefore have the opportunity to meet consumers where they are by recognizing that the gospel is a doorway into the whole story of God—not simply a ticket to heaven, but the ongoing and enacted recognition, beginning with repentance, that we belong truly to God.” (Volume 53, Number 1, Page 24)
- Title: Christianity Today, 2009, Volume 53, Numbers 1–12
- Author: Christianity Today International
- Edition: 1–12
- Series: Christianity Today
- Volume: 53
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christianity › 20th century--Periodicals; Theology › Periodicals
- ISBN: 00095753
- Resource ID: LLS:CTMAG53
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:45:03Z