{"id":9661,"date":"2024-05-06T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2024-05-11T18:48:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T23:48:03","slug":"american-evangelicals-seven-observations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9661","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY: THE SO-CALLED BIBLICAL VARIETY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I could describe and defend the following seven statements at length but will hold off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Various polls confirm the following observations. I am happy to know several Christians who have chosen a better way.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many American Evangelicals are more concerned, even consumed, with being politically or culturally literate than knowing the Bible, the church&#8217;s history, and theology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discipleship, as Dallas Willard regularly declared, is almost non-existent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We love resurrection power but have forgotten what it means to be crucified with Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Too many churches tolerate unqualified leaders.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>J.I. Packer said the greatest need of the church is Christian education (he used the word catechesis), but few have heeded his counsel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Many of us are confused by what the gospel entails, and fewer still share it with others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>We are gladly stuck in our tribes and echo chambers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I could describe and defend the following seven statements at length but will hold off. Various polls confirm the following observations. I am happy to know several Christians who have chosen a better way. Many American Evangelicals are more concerned, even consumed, with being politically or culturally literate than knowing the Bible, the church&#8217;s history, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,106,62,89,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-church","category-discipleship","category-gospel","category-learningeducation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9673,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}