Random thoughts on Haggard and Evangelicalism"
Maybe it is time for us to humbly admit that we are missing something. My guess is we are missing Jesus. We equate Jesus with the values and morals of the Christian subculture, or vigorous theology, or spiritual experiences. Perhaps we can do all these things without knowing Jesus at all. Maybe we've been going through the motions for so long we don't know what is real anymore. Maybe we don't really want to know Jesus because the cost is too high.
As Willard and Hull both remind us, the cost of discipleship is high; but the cost of non-discipleship, immeasureably higher.
Someone needs to write a book about that. Fast.