Follow This ‘Third Way’ for Resilient Faith
The church will always face external threats. The gospel will always incite opposition. What if our biggest problem, then, isn’t hostility from the world but compromise inside the church?
Gerald Sittser marshals that argument in his new book, Resilient Faith: How the Early Christian ‘Third Way’ Changed the World, published by Brazos. He writes: “The problem we currently face is not primarily political or ideological. The problem is the compromised identity of the church itself and the compromised message of the gospel.”
Vague messages of spiritual uplift that demand little in discipleship don’t hold up in a world gripped by a deadly pandemic of COVID-19. But the early church shows us a different, better way. In fact, as Sittser points out in this interview, these courageous Christ...