Evangelicalism's bigger problem is that it has increasingly displaced the Bible as its foundation for knowing what to think and how to live and supplanted it with experience, desire, and preference. In other words, it has surrendered its heart to personal freedoms. An increasing number of "major" leaders have no theological apparatus, a thin perception of the gospel, and a lack of an integrated missional theology rooted in the Bible. Their perception of the great tradition of the church shocks even the youngest of theological students.
A call to faithfulness, a long faithfulness, is more than needed.
What do you most hope readers will take away from your book?
A willingness to re-examine the Bible's own words -- beginning with Hebrews -- on the theme of faithfulness.
Read an excerpt from A Long Faithfulness at the Patheos Book Club.