“Instead, what passes as ‘serious academic scholarship’ among many Evangelicals and Reformed amounts to self-affirming dialogues carried on between people who insulate themselves within various ‘safe’ Confessional and publishing contexts.”
“My personal observation is that very few congregations are growing by actually reaching ‘real converts’ week-by-week. The evidence that biblical evangelism is actually transforming significant numbers of people is very small. What amazes me is that the ordinary Christian in the typical church doesn’t really care.”
