David F. Wells, Professor of Historical and
Systematic Theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary, has analyzed this tendency in two good
books: No Place for Truth: Or Whatever Happened to
Evangelical Theology? and God in the Wasteland: The
Reality of Truth in a World of Fading Dreams. In the
second he writes, "The fundamental problem in the
evangelical world today is not inadequate technique,
insufficient organization, or antiquated
music....The fundamental problem in the evangelical
world today is that God rests too inconsequentially
upon the church. His truth is too distant, his grace
too ordinary, his judgment is too benign,
his gospel too easy,
and his Christ too common. Clearly, in our day we
need to push the pendulum back in the direction of a
concern for God and His attributes and stress the
doctrine of God again and again in our preaching.”
- James Montgomery Boice “Reformation in Doctrine,
Worship, & Life”
