Christian Spirituality: Earthy Versus Ethereal

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Christian Spirituality: Earthy Versus Ethereal

Throughout Christian history two competing conceptions of spirituality have been imbedded in the church. Only one is correct. The other is dangerous.

P. Andrew Sandlin

Sep 03, 2021

Dear friends and supporters,

I’ve been wanting for weeks to address the topic of the two leading, competing views of Christian spirituality in history, and have finally been able to get around to it. I hope you benefit from it. If so, please share it with others.

Please keep reading the brief but important information below.

Read the article here.

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Saturday, December 4

Center for Cultural Leadership Annual Symposium in San Francisco

9 AM — 3 PM

Includes catered lunch in a four-star hotel on the Bay

Theme:

“Un-Virtuous Economics: Political Interventionism, Woke Capitalism, and Church Pietism”

Tentative presenters include David L. Bahnsen, Jerry Bowyer, Brian G. Mattson, Jeffery J. Ventrella, and me (P. Andrew Sandlin)

Since this isn’t a talking-head conference but a symposium, every attendee will get a chance to comment and share his views.

Hotel rooms available for early registrants. Airport hotel with easy, quick 24-hour shuttle.

This event is free, but it isn’t open to the public. It’s by invitation only. You get invited by contacting me (P. Andrew Sandlin) privately.

Seating is limited, but I hope to see many of you there.

Personal

Sharon and I will be headed out of town to spend this holiday weekend with longtime friends. I pray just now that you’ll enjoy a memorable time with your family.

Next week’s tentative title for CultureChange is “The Fundamentalist Temptation.”

Heading into the fall, please consider a donation to CCL. We’re a 22-year-old, explicitly Christian think tank dedicated to influencing Christians to influence all of culture in a distinctly Christian way. By God’s grace, we’ve been successful. Please keep us forging ahead.

Thank you deeply for your consideration.

Yours for a godly, earthy spirituality,

Founder & President, Center for Cultural Leadership

The Church Desperately Needs a Creational Worldview

We sometimes hear the well-meaning exhortation, “Christianity doesn’t start with the Bible, but with Jesus Christ.” This might very well be true, but Christians must embrace biblical truth anterior to Christianity, and that is creation as the Bible describes it. Put another way: the Bible is bigger than Christianity. We will not understand his person and work in their greater depths if we bypass creation. This is a small book about not bypassing creation. It’s a book about thinking in creational categories, and purging contra-creational categories that infect our culture and, in too many cases, our churches.