Should church members park in a bike lane? The power of truth to change your life and world
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Members of the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia chose to accommodate local bike riders in order to engage their community with biblical truth. The late pastor James Montgomery Boice observed: “No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process.” As we’ll see today, such change is more vital for our churches and our culture than ever before.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Thursday, August the 15th, 2024. I'm Chris |
| 0:08.8 | Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.7 | Members of the historic 10th Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia have been legally parking on the street outside their building thanks to a city permit. |
| 0:26.1 | However, these spots are located in what is, other than Sunday morning, a bike lane. |
| 0:31.7 | After months of protest by a local association of cyclists, the church has decided to work with the city to find |
| 0:38.2 | alternative parking. Their executive pastor explained, many of our neighbors see us as self-centered, |
| 0:44.5 | pursuing our own interests, and unconcerned with their welfare. That's something that could easily |
| 0:49.5 | become a stumbling block for them as we try to invite them to know the Lord and to know us as a church. |
| 0:55.6 | Their decision to prioritize the souls of their community marks them as followers of the one |
| 1:00.7 | who from Luke 19, verse 10, came to seek and to save the lost. |
| 1:05.9 | James Montgomery Boyce, who famously pastored their church from 1968 until his death in 2000 observed. |
| 1:13.9 | No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process. |
| 1:20.7 | As we'll see today, such change is more vital for our churches and our culture than ever before. |
| 1:30.8 | In 1953, Americans' belief in God was near 100%. More than 90% identified as Christians, and 73% were church members. That same year, |
| 1:39.3 | psychologist Rollo May wrote in Man's Search for Himself that the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, |
| 1:47.4 | but conformity. Now that church membership has fallen below 50% for the first time in American |
| 1:53.3 | history, what would he say about conformity to our post-Christian culture? In Francis Schaefer's |
| 1:59.6 | The Great Evangelical Disaster, we have the |
| 2:02.6 | apologists' answer to our question, quote, here is the great evangelical disaster, the failure |
| 2:08.9 | of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this, namely, |
| 2:15.4 | accommodation. The evangelical church has accommodated to the |
| 2:19.8 | world's spirit of the age. First, there has been accommodation on Scripture, so that many |
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