I have selected the following extracts from three works David
Wells published in the 1990s, before the teaching of N.T.Wright
went viral on the internet. Moreover, he was not writing about
propitiation. So why have I selected from these 1990s works?
Because what Wells had to say in those three books, with only
the very slightest – but justified – editing, confirms what I have
been trying to say in this present work.
I quote first, from David F.Wells: Losing our Virtue: Why the
Church Must Recover its Moral Vision.1
Wells:
It is impossible, of course, to speak about the gospel without
speaking of sin, though if there were a way, our churchmarketers,
with their boundless ingenuity, would have found it.
They have often come close to passing the gospel off as if it
had more to do with what we want than with who we are, more
with consumption than with repentance... What has happened...
is that the church has accommodated itself to a culture that
makes no sense. So, how can the church talk about sin without
actually talking about sin? |
