Church Challenge: A Faithful Witness For A Hopeful Future
We believe thoughtful, civil, and straightforward online discourse can supernaturally give rise to a community resolved to "strengthen what remains and is about to die" in American evangelicalism.
Being a faithful Christian in America is hard.
Maybe not as hard as faithfulness in a country where Christianity is blatantly persecuted. But maybe in some ways even harder.
Why Church Challenge, and why now?
We see many unique “church challenges” in America. These often result in unique expressions of Christianity in America never witnessed before in church history, and worse yet, not witnessed by Scripture. These challenges have also produced unsurprisingly, age-old expressions that have been rebuked since the time of the Scriptures.
Yet we believe this eroding Christian witness can be restored through a more hopeful Church Challenge
Can we wrestle together—civilly and thoughtfully—toward a vision for a more faithful Christian witness? Can such idealism meaningfully influence our present reality? That is the prayerful hope for this channel.
Church Challenge envisions a 3-pronged, comprehensive framework for reform:
Personal faithfulness in our private lives and homes.
Corporate faithfulness as we meet together.
Public faithfulness as we engage the world.
Will you join us on this journey to the Celestial City?
In John Bunyan’s famous allegory Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian, Faithful, and Hopeful set out on that perilous journey. Their story may have been ficitional, but the destination and fellowship it describes are not. They stumble; they struggle; but they never walk alone. Most importantly, they make it home.
Like them, can American evangelicals today keep to that narrow road, recovering from our deviations? And in the process, can Church Challenge avoid the typical pitfalls that threaten an online / social media community? We answer a hopeful “yes” to both questions. We believe thoughtful, civil, and straightforward online discourse can supernaturally give rise to a community resolved to “strengthen what remains and is about to die” in American evangelicalism.
