Marketplace Christianity

I’ve been watching a some of a talk a guy called Ron Bailey gave on The De Vinci Code. Ron is an excellent teacher and has a wonderful gift for making complex concepts into simple outworkable understanding. During this talk he’s making some points about how “gray haired people” go on about how much worse the world is these days and makes the point that it’s actually more like when the Christian church began. I quote:

I hope for all of you this doesn’t make you feel sad and weary, and gets you into a siege mentality where you think “Oh well we’d better batton down the hatches and hold on because it’s going to get worse”. I hope it will have the effect of you thinking “actually this is exactly what it was like right at the very beginning, lets get stuck in there”. Christianity didn’t begin in churches and pulpits and pews, it began in the marketplace, it began in the rough and tumble of life and we’ve got nothing to fear from that.

This marketplace Christianity is fundamental to the growth of the Church in these days and I’m glad a guy I respect like Ron is talking about it.

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