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Challies Dot Com<\/span><\/a> is working again, and longtime readers of my blog know the score \u2013 Tim and others get to live-blog, and I get to find some interesting paragraphs and reproduce them here. I call it \u201cremote blogging,\u201d and this one is a corker of a quote:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity is only about this kind of Christ \u2013 Christ reigning supreme and unchallenged and unchallengeable over all of life\u2019s enemies. We do not have any other message than this. Seekers and postmoderns don\u2019t want to hear this, but the bottom line is that we don\u2019t have anything else to give them. Our only message is of Christ as unique, central, indispensable and supreme. We need to talk together and think together about how we help people to come from where they are in our postmodern culture to this point where they see Christ as supreme. But at the end of the day we do not have a different Christ for the postmodern generation than for any other. Many have decided that this is very off-putting to postmoderns and have been offering a slimmed-down version of the gospel. Certain important truths may not have been denied, but were kept hidden out-of-view since these things would prove perilous to the church\u2019s success. We are now living with the consequences of this. In America 45% say they are born again, but only 9% have even the slightest clue about the most minimal biblical understanding to what it means to live an ethical life as a disciple. In America today, being born again counts for nothing. The chickens have come home to roost. We are not far from the very difficulties that the author of Hebrews identifies in these early Christians. We have pulled back from the uniqueness and centrality of Christ. They did it out of fear for their safety, but we are doing it out of fear that we may not be successful. This is a serious miscalculation! The only Christ we have to preach is the one the Bible gives us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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