Bright Christian

"Christian preaching was meant to be an alternative to violence. Jesus is God’s alternative to violence . . . and the church is to be his disciple. Some will say that all this isn’t what preaching is for. We can say this only because real preaching hasn’t been dared. We can say this only because our reliance on violence and our practice of offering our preaching in service to the state is a witness to our evangelical loss of nerve, that we really don’t believe in the power of the Word of God."

Read the whole article at:
http://odyssey.blogs.com/odyssey/2005/11/preaching_as_an.html

Labels: Outside Articles, Peace