Bleeding of the Evangelical Church
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Weight | 0.04 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.25 × 4.8 × 0.2 in |
page-count | 16 |
series | Booklets/Tracts |
Banner Pub Date | Dec 1, 1996 |
topic | Church Life |
Original Pub Date | 1995 |
binding | Booklet |
Format | Booklet |
isbn | 9780851516820 |
Book Description
David F. Wells of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Massachusetts, here challenges evangelicalism with a disturbing analysis of its present condition. He believes that we have allowed ourselves to be shaped by the popular culture whose ethos is alien to God-consciousness, to ‘other-worldliness’, and to passion for biblical truth. In putting ‘success’ before theology we have produced a plague of nominal evangelicalism which, unless reversed, leaves us ‘headed towards the oblivion of irrelevance before God’.
This material was first delivered at a Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals who have kindly assisted in the publication. Much fuller treatment of the same themes will be found in the author’s influential books, No Place for Truth and God in the Wasteland. While referring especially to the North American scene, the wider relevance of Dr Wells’ message is indicated by the fact that these two titles have joint publishers on both sides of the Atlantic, W.B. Eerdmans and IVP.
‘What is most lost is what most needs to be recovered. It is the unsettling, disconcerting, moral presence of God in our midst. He can no longer be the junior partner in our religious enterprises and he can never be just an ornamental decoration upon our Church life. It is because God now rests so inconsequentially upon the Church that the Church is free to plot and to devise its success in its own way. That is why so many of our forebears in the faith would scarcely even recognize us as their children today.’
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Sam –
David Wells has been an Oasis in the desert for me since seminary. This booklet is a good primer to his works, which are worth their weight in gold. If you desire to engage our present world and understand the plight of the Evangelical church today Wells is the man on the front lines, and he is a trusted guide. Read and pass this on to many and pray that God would raise up a people with God at the center.