Wisdom from Babylon: Leadership for the Church in a Secular Age (Biblia.com)

Wisdom from Babylon: Leadership for the Church in a Secular Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does it mean to provide leadership for the church in an increasingly secular context? When religion is privatized and secularism reigns in the public square, Christians are often drawn toward either individualist escapism or constant cultural warfare. But might this context instead offer a fresh invitation for the church to adapt and thrive? Gordon Smith is passionate about the need for...

an active role—not as the only player, of course—in working toward social, economic, racial, and ethnic reconciliation.8 So while sexuality was not an incidental theme for the Old Testament prophets, it was not the question that defined what it meant to be the people of God in exile. This leads me to wonder whether questions of human sexuality should be the critical and defining boundary between the faith of the Christian church and the society at large. Might the witness of the prophets suggest

Page 108

Buy this book at Logos.com