Hey folks. I’ve not got Internet access at home at the moment, so emailing and blogging and stuff will involve me visiting the university library until I go home to Dolgellau at the end of the week.
I’ve started writing a series of posts on some issues that have been weighing on my mind recently – namely, the weaknesses of the church in Britain and the West generally, and the question of what to do to improve matters. It seems to me there are a number of ways in which my fellow Christians and I are failing to live the radical life of love that Jesus taught, and not following God as we ought.
The thoughts I’m jotting down are the product of various books that I’ve been reading, various discussions that I’ve had and so on. I’ve almost finished the first post, The immaturity of the evangelical mind, which I hope to put online in the next couple of days, with more to follow shortly.
Being an evangelical (that is, someone who seeks to be firstly Bible-based in belief and practice, to give a rough definition), I’ll focus on those parts of the church which take the same approach, so that I’ll hopefully be engaging in constructive self-criticism. I also don’t want to be a mere whinger, but to suggest constructive ways we can better seek to live the Christian life, both on an individual and corporate level.