A little while back one of my favorite preachers offered a long list of Christian books he recommends. It included excellent books about God and salvation and missions and the Christian life. But, strangely, it did not point to a single book about the church.
I’m not worried about this particular preacher. I know he loves his church. Yet the omission reminded me of something that’s typical of post-1950s evangelicalism: the tendency to forget about the local church in our discipleship and Christian identity.
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