Somewhere along the way, the performance became the person, and now you can’t tell where the effort to look faithful ends and actual faithfulness begins. You know the language of sin and repentance; you can name your type, and people call you disciplined, loyal, even authentic, yet underneath sits …
Podcast
515: Philip Anthony Mitchell on Why The Greatest Threat to the American Church Is the American Pulpit, False Teaching, Exegesis vs. Eisegesis, Biblical Illiteracy and Discernment, the Crisis of Encounter, a Pastor’s Battle With Depression, and Contending for the Faith
Sitting under preaching every Sunday is not the same as knowing the Scriptures well enough to recognize when you are being led somewhere the text never meant to take you. A sermon that never confronts your sin can feel like grace, until one day you realize that your discernment and your hunger for …