There are factors that are changing the church. Not necessarily for the better. The three main factors are entertainment, marketing and psychology. A. W. Tozer said, "If I see aright, the cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament. It is, rather, a new bright ornament upon the bosom of a self-assured and carnal Christianity. The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned, the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it."
Rob Bell, one of the neo-evangelicals said that when Peter was walking on the water and then began to sink that Jesus did not rebuke Peter for his lack of faith in Christ but his lack of faith in himself. I wonder what Tozer would say to that?
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