Ethan Treptow
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Do you think that criticism is always a bad thing? If you find it difficult to take criticism, it’s because you haven’t believed what the cross says about you. The cross is the most blatant statement of criticism ever displayed. It says
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“The crying out to God in lament over a broken history is often set aside in favor of a triumphalistic narrative. We are too busy patting ourselves on the back over the problem-solving abilities of the triumphant American church to cry out to God in lament.”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“Withdrawal from the world or accepting simplistic answers reveals human effort or human problem solving, while lament acknowledges who is ultimately in control.”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“American evangelicalism has created the unique phenomenon of church shopping—viewing church as yet another commodity and product to be evaluated and purchased. When a Christian family moves to a new city, how much of the standards by which they choose a church is based upon a shopping list of their personal tastes and wants rather than their commitment to a particular community or their desire to serve a particular neighborhood? Churches, in turn, have adapted their ministries to appeal to the consumer mindset of the American public.”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“The building up of massive stockpiles of weapons capable of destroying the world is the direct result of modern technological development. And it consumes huge amounts of time, money, and materials. If one year’s worth of global spending on arms were spent on food instead, it could feed the world’s hungry for years.”
― Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview
― Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview
“Concordists believe the Bible must agree—be in concord with—all the findings of contemporary science. Through the entire Bible, there is not a single instance in which God revealed to Israel a science beyond their own culture. No passage offers a scientific perspective that was not common to the Old World science of antiquity.[”
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
― The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
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