doggiesbreakfast said...
Interesting. I have had one of Blamires' books (on the post-christian mind) on my Amazon wishlist for while but not got round to getting it. You are right it is a pressure! Have you any more concrete examples of the phenomenon?
Well I suppose we must look in the context of church practice at the fall of the sermon and rise of 'chat' as a prime example. Associated with it is the emergemce of 'counselling' and the widespread expectation that ministers should be community workers.
More generally, many assume that 'helping people' is so essentially Christian and 'witness-ful' that the 'how' doesn't matter. I spent four years (long ago) as a family case worker before fully realizing how humanistic social philosophy and social work practice are. Should have known better - there is no room for God because there is none for sin either. I'm not sure that we have really grasped what a minefield 'contextualizing' the gosel is.
