David Mills in the July/August issue of Touchstone:
If the Christian revelation is both true and a truth to which fallen men are partly blinded, and a truth of great complexity and sophistication, a preacher may be most relevant when his language is least contemporary, and may be irrelevant to the point of fatuousness when it is most contemporary. [more]
"All that is not eternal, is eternally out of date."
C.S. Lewis
Touchstone Archives: Preaching Without Reaching
Thanks for the link to a most thoughtful article. I'm reminded of the parable of the talents. The industrious servants invested the talents and got a return. The third was lazy and got nothing.
ReplyDeleteWhy sit in a pew and not put in the effort to learn the language necessary to learn spiritual truth?