Dr. Michael Horton's new book, Christless Christianity has just been released.
Here is a description:
Is it possible that we have left Christ out of Christianity? Is the faith and practice of American Christians today more American than Christian? These are the provocative questions Michael Horton addresses in this thoughtful, insightful book. He argues that while we invoke the name of Christ, too often Christ and the Christ-centered gospel are pushed aside. The result is a message and a faith that are, in Horton's words, "trivial, sentimental, affirming, and irrelevant." This alternative "gospel" is a message of moralism, personal comfort, self-help, self-improvement, and individualistic religion. It trivializes God, making him a means to our selfish ends. Horton skillfully diagnoses the problem and points to the solution: a return to the unadulterated gospel of salvation.We had Dr. Horton and D.A. Carson at Desert Springs Church a few months back for our annual Clarus conference and he was a joy to be with. I would encourage you to pick up this book.
You can find it here.
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I hope and pray that this book gets into the hands of as many Joel Osteen and "life-improvement sermon" fans as possible. Christianity without the bloody, horrible death of Christ on a cross for our sins, and without the glorious Resurrection of Christ which triumphed over Satan and evil, eternally-- well, that sort of "Christianity" just isn't the Christianity of the Bible.
Pastor (or elder), is Christ crucified for the sins of His people *prominent* in your sermons? If not, you may be preaching messages that are something close to "synagogue
sermons"-- sermons which would never cause you to be thrown out of a synagogue, and which for that reason, are simply not Christian sermons.
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