Two Cheers for Religion
“Obviously, if the choice is between the gospel and religion, I’ll take the gospel. But what if by relentlessly denigrating ‘religion,’ we are creating as many problems as we are trying to solve?” - Kevin DeYoung
Our forefathers were well aware of religious hypocrisy, but they did not equate “religion” with works-righteousness. If we teach our people that religion is be avoided, they will have a hard time understanding why most Christians throughout most of history did not use “religion” in such a negative sense.
Glad to see this piece. The cliche of “it’s not a religion” has been bugging me for quite a while (along with broad denigration of “duty” as the presumed opposite of love. The modern evangelical antipathy toward discipline and rigor and ritual may sound pious but it’s really caving to the culture.)
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.
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