The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World by John Piper & Justin Taylor & David F. Wells & D. A. Carson & Voddie T. Baucham Jr. & Mark Driscoll & Timothy J. Keller

Author:John Piper & Justin Taylor & David F. Wells & D. A. Carson & Voddie T. Baucham Jr. & Mark Driscoll & Timothy J. Keller
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9781581349221
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2007-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

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Part 3

Gospel Theologizing and

Contextualizing

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CHAPTER 5

The Gospel and the Supremacy of

Christ in a Postmodern World

Tim Keller

A Crisis for Evangelism

Our current cultural situation poses a crisis for the way evangelicals

have been doing evangelism for the past 150 years—causing us to raise

crucial questions like: How do we do evangelism today? How do we

get the gospel across in a postmodern world?

In 1959 Martyn Lloyd-Jones gave a series of messages on revival.

One of his expositions was on Mark 9, where Jesus comes off the

mountain of transfiguration and discovers his disciples trying unsuc-

cessfully to exorcise a demon from a boy. After he rids the youth of

the demonic presence, the disciples ask him, “Why could we not cast

it out?” Jesus answers, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything

but prayer” (Mark 9:28–29). Jesus was teaching his disciples that their

ordinary methods did not work for “this kind.” Lloyd-Jones went on

to apply this to the church:

Here, in this boy, I see the modern world, and in the disciples I see

the Church of God. . . . I see a very great difference between today

and two hundred years ago, or indeed even one hundred years ago.

The difficulty in those earlier times was that men and women were in

a state of apathy. They were more or less asleep. . . . [T]here was no

general denial of Christian truth. It was just that people did not trouble

to practise it. . . . [A]ll you had to do then was to awaken them and to

rouse them. . . .

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