Wednesday, April 25, 2007

A Lutheran's thoughts on "Practical Agnosticism"

Pastor Alms gives a good post on what John Eldridge would call "practical agnosticism" (although I like the ring of "functional empiricists"). One of the most unfortunate fallouts of modernism on the church is our increased natural instinct to believe everything is material. We have lost the Great Story in a flurry of materialism and consumerism. We have sacrificed the transcendent for the here and now. We have abandoned the sacramental for good stock portfolios. Shame on us all.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, Jon... We all need to hear that as often as possible.

Shelby