Idolatry
From Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places:
A huge religious marketplace has been set up in North America to meet the needs and fantasies of people like us. There are conferences and gatherings
theocentric
Losing the biblical gospel
From J.I. Packer in The Quest for Godliness:
There is no doubt that evangelicalism today is in a state of perplexity and unsettlement. In such matters as the practice of evangelism, the
The idolatry of the “Good Life”
Internet Monk warns us of the influence of American culture in our preaching:
The idolatry of "The Good Life" is, instead, the reshaping of the Christian movement into a particularly American
God is not relevant, he is the measure of relevance
From Connexions:
Indeed I'd suggest that the fundamental malaise of contemporary Christianity is precisely its substitution of a problem-solving God for a God who is ultimate mystery.
For many people, God
Telling the story of God
Sidney Greidanus has written a few books that touch on the challenge of theocentric preaching. In The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text, he argues that the Bible's purpose is to