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“In his new book, A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles: Instruction and Inspiration for Living Supernaturally in Christ, renowned Christian philosopher J.P. Moreland makes a provocative claim. Ninety-five percent of what the average evangelical church accomplishes in a given year, suggests Moreland, could be explained even if God didn’t exist.” - Breakpoint

Discussion

Tue, 01/04/22

I’m disappointed to see Moreland going this direction. Living by faith isn’t experiencing miracles; it’s seeing the power of God in everything “that could be explained even if God didn’t exist.” The difference between children of darkness and children of light (Eph 5.8) is not what happens to them, but how truly and deeply they understand what happens.

Every beat of a heart is a work of God, every spinning electron, every gentle breeze. “By Him all things consist” and “in Him we live and move and have our being” (Col 1:17, Acts 17:28). Miracle/extraordinary providence (aka drama) is overvalued, and thinking Christianly about the ‘ordinary’ is undervalued.

Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.