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• John Leith makes a similar point by asking, “What do churches have to say and do that no other institution can?” His Reformed answer: minister God’s Word, in preaching, teaching, and counseling. To this we shall want to add, “and shape God’s people so that they reflect the new humanity that is in Christ.”
• “Societies become secular not when they dispense with religion altogether, but when they are no longer especially agitated by it.”[1]
• its understanding of the clergy.
• The idea of the pastor as a theologian—one who opens up the Scriptures to help people understand God, the world, and themselves—no longer causes the hearts of most church members to “burn within” them (Luke 24:32).
• This book is written to hasten theology’s return. It sets out to reclaim the land—the place where God dwells—by viewing the people of God as the principal medium with which the pastor works. The underlying conviction is that theological minds need to return to where they belong: in the body of Christ. The present book aims to reclaim the theologica...