In theology and worship, in discipleship and outreach, nothing is more important than knowing your spiritual legacy, the roots of your spiritual ancestry, the proverbial Rock out of which you were dug. In order to discern the origins of our own heritage, we need to do some spiritual genealogical work, as it were, to detect more precisely what constitutes the roots of our faith in Jesus Christ.

Today, the contemporary evangelical church finds itself impacted by and situated in an age of postmodernism, civil religion, hedonism, pragmatism, and ego-centrism. These cultural winds of compromise and change all (to some degree) have influenced the worship and service of the body of Christ in our various traditions and cultural expressions of our faith. These challenges call for a new discovery and appropriation of the faith once-for-all delivered to the people of God. To meet these threats and to take advantage of our present opportunities, we must seek to be transformed, renewed, and enlarged by the Christian Story in order to give truer witness to Christ and his Kingdom reign. Read more...

The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots