Jared Wilson has undertaken an interesting project/challenge on his blog The Gospel-Driven Church: he’s posting his own 95 theses for the American church, 19 at a time for five days. The first 19 went up this morning, headed “On the Discipleship of the Individual Christian,” with the rest to come over the course of this week. In doing this, Jared acknowledges a possible charge of arrogance, but I don’t think that really follows; the fact that he’s deliberately echoing Martin Luther doesn’t mean he’s comparing himself to Luther, after all, or that he expects his theses to have the same effect as Luther’s did. As far as I can tell, he’s simply doing what Luther intended to do when he took hammer and nail to the door of the Wittenburg cathedral: systematizing his challenge to the status quo so as to provoke discussion. Judging by the first 19, I’d say he has a good chance of accomplishing that. If you haven’t already spent some time considering his post, I’d suggest you do so, and keep checking back for the other 76 theses; and then I’d suggest we all spend some serious time in prayer for the church in this country, and for ourselves.
Rob, as always, thanks so much for the link. And for your graciousness.
As always, you’re very welcome. I’m quite interested in what you’re doing here, and curious as to what sort of response you’ll get.