OS contends that the culture started wandering off some time ago, when the American church decided that it was crucial to look/feel/smell like the rest of the culture. Well, it succeeded in that quest, and the results have not been pretty.
There are a few souls who continue to stand up and question the wisdom of that approach.
Pastor Peters has the wordsmith's gift of putting his finger directly upon the raw nerve that we generally wish left alone.
It is the greatest sadness that we pawn off the Church (and therefore Christ) as a toothless lion who can really do no harm but which is really kind of nice once you get used to it... It is to our poverty that we offer the world only a pale imitation of what they already have instead of the radical difference of the Incarnate God who has borne the fullness of our sin and all its grief in order to place upon us the easy yoke of grace and mercy... It is our weakness that we would rather be seen as ordinary than the extra-ordinary among whom God is present and faith apprehends and responds to this presence in the means of grace...
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