Showing the world our wounds (Acts 4:32-35; John 20:19-31)
Some people say they don’t identify as Christian because of what they see, or don’t see, in the church.
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I’ve been reading Gregory Boyle’s new book Barking to the Choir. Early in the book, Father Boyle makes reference to a New Yorker profile of American Baptists that relayed the resignation of one congregation’s leaders to the fact that “secular culture” would always be “hostile” to Christianity. “I don’t believe this is true,” says Boyle. “Our culture is hostile only to the inauthentic living of the gospel.”
