The longer I’m a pastor, the more I believe that the road to heresy doesn’t begin with questioning God. The road to heresy begins with being unquestionably certain that no one knows God better than you do and believing that everyone else is a heretic but you.
The raceless gospel proclaims an anti-oppressive ecclesiology and embodies a spirituality of somebodiness that calls out the heresy of white supremacy while calling all God's children into beloved community.
Religion without the Spirit, without authentic spirituality, basically becomes a way to give divine sanction/endorsement/legitimization to our biases and prejudices and it becomes a way to maintain the status quo. It also becomes a means of exerting control over...
The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.------------------------------------------------------------Gender-inclusive version: The...
The great heresy in American popular religion is the notion that “religion is a private affair,” a secret contract between the believer and God. This individualistic heresy makes Jesus into a close, personal friend who listens, comforts, sustains, confirms, agrees,...
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
We can learn a great deal about worship by looking at the earliest Christians, for the culture that surrounded them was in many ways similar to ours in twenty-first century North America. Then and now the population is highly pluralistic, with the people’s...
The implication of Christology for worship is that it is to be both fully divine and fully human. Over-divinization and over humanization are always heretical and usually the easiest routes to follow. The balance of fully human and fully divine is always the most...