New Reading Assignment...

My sidekick (aka. Jonathan Carbo) has given us a new reading assignment--"Future Grace" by John Piper.

I began it a couple of days ago.

Here are two quotes from the preface of the book.

"I have found in twenty years of preaching and teaching and struggling with people who want to be authentic Christians, that the way they think about Christian living is often absorbed form the cultural air we breathe rather than learned from categories of Scripture. Not only that, some of the inherited categories of Christian thinking are so out of sync with the bible that they work against the very obedience they are designed to promote"

"As a culture and as a church we are not give to much serious reflection. The consequence is that we are often molded by popular notions, rather than permeated by biblical ones. And the church looks very much like the world."

I found these quotes very insightful...