Conserving Well the Gospel of God’s Grace (1 Cor. 1:17-31)
Image from Unsplash In this series, “Conserving Well, Changing Wisely,” we are talking about the importance and need for both conservativism and change in the church and the interplay between them. The primary concern here though is conservatism, not change. The point is that we won’t conserve well if we are not willing to change wisely. We will get to the change part. But for now I want to spend a few weeks highlighting the things that we want to conserve. I am not going to mention every article of our faith as things we need to conserve. Please don’t take that to mean I think we shouldn’t conserve them! I gladly and firmly support every word in our articles of faith. But I am being selective in terms of what to speak to. So let me explain why I’m picking the things I’m picking to highlight as the things we need to preserve and conserve. The topics I’m choosing to speak to are things that are not shared by all evangelic...
