Some things never change, but some things ought to.
This is the first Bible and journal I had after becoming a Christian at age 19.
While the Gospel concerning Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God never changes, the ways in which we declare that Gospel to the world, and display the reality of Christ’s Lordship over all of life, must respond, in the light of God’s unchanging Word and in submission to its never changing teaching, to the shifting values, moral crises and “spirit of the age” of each cultural era.
We live in a post-Christian culture. It is drifting out of modernism, through post-modernism and into tribalism, resulting in identity politics and social fragmentation. Professing to be wise, our cultural leaders have become fools in rebellion against God’s design in Creation.
This process is resulting in the deepening isolation of individuals from the healthy, loving, relationships God intended as a means of common grace. Only the return of the evangelical church as a example of the simple life modeled by the early church in the Book of Acts can offer a suitably revolutionary alternative. The agape kind of love that they lived out must be restored in our day.
Christians in this time in history have an opportunity to shine in the gathering darkness of the modern world! But in order to do so effctively we must let go of hundreds of years of extra-biblical church tradition. We must allow Christ to rinse away the road grime that has collected on our feet with “the washing of the water by the word.”
Entheos is an attempt to cooperate with Christ in that great endeavor. If you are a seminary student or graduate with hopes of making a positive difference in the world for the glory of God, we could use your help. We welcome you to use our growing network as a context for putting your biblical studies into action promoting church revival and the church reformation that inevitably follows.
But please understand that Christ’s church “runs on regular, not on racing fuel.” That is to say, those who aquire seminary training are intended to serve as a supplement, not a substitute, for the many “regular guys” God so generously provides to lead the house congregations in our network. By using your valuable training to improve the quality of every man’s teaching ministry in the church you will become truly great in the kingdom of God.