- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Church
This is a repost from 2022.
Ecclesiocentrism is incredibly simple to understand and absolutely ubiquitous in Scripture.
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Church
Never separate yourself from the Church. For nothing is stronger than the Church. Your hope is the Church alone; your salvation is inside the Church only, your refuge is the Church. She is higher than the heavens, and wider than the whole earth. She never grows old, but is always full of vigor and vitality. Holy Scripture, when pointing to her strength and stability, calls her an unshakable mountain ...
-- St. John Chrysostom
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Church
Paul’s formula for unity in Ephesians 4:5 is helpful because of its balance: there is one faith, one Lord, one baptism (+ one Eucharist) — that is to say, there is the content of the faith, the way it is lived out under Christ’s lordship, and the sacramental boundaries drawn around the church. All three are important ingredients in our unity. The objectivity of the covenant matters, but nothing objective guarantees subjective faithfulness. Unity has both objective and subjective elements.
- Written by: Rich Lusk
- Category: Church
My friend Andrew Isker has weighed in on the Christian nationalism debate with a response to Peter Leithart's short statement on Christian nationalism. A few weeks ago, Larson Hicks and I interviewed Isker about his book (co-authored with Andrew Torba) on Christian nationalism.