Saturday, June 04, 2005

"The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience"

Sider: the Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

e-church points to this Christianity Today article by Ron Sider, an excerpt from his new book "The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience". It is a careful and well-documented look at how little those who claim to be Christians differ in their moral behavior from the general populace. Well worth reading and deeply contemplating ...

The Scandal of the Evangelical ConscienceWhy don't Christians live what they preach?By Ronald J. Sider
Once upon a time there was a great religion that over the centuries had spread all over the world. But in those lands where it had existed for the longest time, its adherents slowly grew complacent, lukewarm, and skeptical. Indeed, many of the leaders of its oldest groups even publicly rejected some of the religion's most basic beliefs.
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