John Piper’s reflections after a mainline church service

Posted on August 24, 2018 
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“Since our church has a Saturday night service and my wife was out of town, I was feeling perhaps especially venturesome a couple of weeks ago and decided to go to our church on Saturday night, and then go to a mainline Protestant church in downtown Minneapolis. …

If you walk into that church, and you didn’t know any better, you’d say this looks like a church from forever ago — this is what church is. Big stained-glass windows, and pastors at the front, a big organ, lots of music, singing about Jesus — what could be more churchy than this? Except there’s nothing there of any ultimate reality.”

– John Piper shares his reflections after visiting a liberal, progressive church.

It may be that many Bible-believing Anglicans have had little experience of what is taught in some other churches. A taste of bland, liberal heresy can be a strong incentive to value Bible-focussed and Christ-honouring worship.