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Never Be Embarrassed by What the Bible Says Cities Church Exhortations
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- Christianity
We will never be embarrassed by what the Bible says. No matter what. Even if every new scientific study was said to debunk Christian truth; if every political expert were to call our theology problematic; if every sociologist were to consider our worldview bigoted;if every neighbor were to say that the exclusive claims of Jesus are a form of hate speech —We stand by the words of Scripture. “Let God be true though every one were a liar!” (Romans 3:4).This is the calling of every generation of Christians, but it also can be an elusive calling — because for some reason we tend to want this world (which is under the power of the devil [see 1 John 5:19]— we want this world to like us. And so the pressure is (and has always been) to dilute Christian truth so that it will be a better fit with a godless palette. And we just want to say No to that. When we read things in the Bible that ruffle the feathers of our modern sentiments, we take that to be our problem, not the Bible’s.We’re not trying to squeeze the Bible into the standards of popular culture, but we want — by God’s grace — to bring everything under the authority of God’s word, and the main message of God’s word, which is the good news of Jesus Christ. So I exhort you, Cities Church: never be embarrassed by what the Bible says, but happily embrace it for our good and the glory of God.
We will never be embarrassed by what the Bible says. No matter what. Even if every new scientific study was said to debunk Christian truth; if every political expert were to call our theology problematic; if every sociologist were to consider our worldview bigoted;if every neighbor were to say that the exclusive claims of Jesus are a form of hate speech —We stand by the words of Scripture. “Let God be true though every one were a liar!” (Romans 3:4).This is the calling of every generation of Christians, but it also can be an elusive calling — because for some reason we tend to want this world (which is under the power of the devil [see 1 John 5:19]— we want this world to like us. And so the pressure is (and has always been) to dilute Christian truth so that it will be a better fit with a godless palette. And we just want to say No to that. When we read things in the Bible that ruffle the feathers of our modern sentiments, we take that to be our problem, not the Bible’s.We’re not trying to squeeze the Bible into the standards of popular culture, but we want — by God’s grace — to bring everything under the authority of God’s word, and the main message of God’s word, which is the good news of Jesus Christ. So I exhort you, Cities Church: never be embarrassed by what the Bible says, but happily embrace it for our good and the glory of God.
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