God is doing something good here. It’s good for me to doubt a faith whose hope was tethered more to Reformed Evangelicalism than to Jesus Christ. It’s good for us that our echo chamber has blown up. But what do we do with all the pieces?

In his book, In Two Minds, Os Guinness quotes John 5:44 and has this to say about the Pharisees:

“…their nominal faith in God was supported and accredited by a closed system of mutual human honoring which made the need for any honor from God superfluous.”

In other words the Pharisees faith was buttressed not by the good news of God’s Kingdom but rather by their own religious culture that they had created. If they had Together for the Law conferences back then the same dudes would have likely headlined each conference. They had effectively created an echo chamber and eventually the voice of God grew dimmer and dimmer.

This almost feels too painful to write about. And maybe some of the events are too raw for us to talk about. But I think God is doing something here and I don’t want to be silent or refuse to learn from pain.

Ten years ago. That wasn’t so long ago was it? But I went back in my mind to 2009 when I was bumping Lecrae and turned to my wife, with tears in my eyes, excited at how God was speaking such biblical truth through this medium. I was a kid who grew up listening to 2Pac and I never thought I’d be able to see God so deeply glorified through this same medium. In 2009, Time magazine considered New Calvinism one of the 10 Ideas Changing the World. And that was my tribe. It felt like God was really moving within Reformed Evangelicalism.

But that was ten years ago…

Ten years ago. I was reading CJ Mahaney’s book on Humility and giving Joshua Harris’ book, Dug Down Deep, to some folks to help with discipleship. (Okay, that was actually 2010).

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