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The Courage to Be Protestant: Reformation Faith in Today’s World (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive faith is not faring so well in our contemporary Western context. In his 2008 book The Courage to Be Protestant, David Wells issued a summons to return to the historic Protestant faith, defined by the Reformation solas (grace, faith, and Scripture alone)...

to set on Willow Creek. Its cachet went down the tubes. If Willow Creek could not move on fashion-wise, others not quite so wed to its particular mode of doing things could. It was a stunning reminder of how fickle fashions are. As Dean Inge said, a century ago, those who are wedded to the spirit of the age today will find themselves a widower tomorrow. What I am describing is the widowhood of the marketing church. The mood changed. In 2016, according to Barna, only 8 percent of millennials said
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