On Being 'Just Christian'
A couple years ago, when I first moved to Wisconsin, I joined a local megachurch Bible study that wasn’t attached to my church.
Despite attending a Lutheran Church Missouri Synod congregation, I found Wisconsin was generally bereft of young folks eager to spend time together, with most local Lutheran and Episcopal parishes skewing smaller and older.
“One of the core problems of the Christian life is the sublimation of the will to that of Christ,”
says Tyler Hummel. I asked the woman leading the Bible study, a former Dutch Calvinist, why she’d left her creedal tradition, and she gave me an answer that’s become all too common in the evangelical world:
“I’m just a Christian!”
In a sense, this is a very mature conclusion. There is a sad spiritual immaturity in the very existence of denominations.
Author's summary: Exploring the concept of being 'just Christian'.
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