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Preachers whom God calls to trumpet the resurrection of Christ often emit the pitiful sounds of human whining.
–G. Lee Ramsey Jr. in his book Preachers and Misfits, Prophets and Thieves: The Minister in Southern Fiction
He’s right, of course. Let’s not whine this Sunday. Let’s trumpet the triumph of a formerly dead Messiah.
Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.
Russell Moore is Editor in Chief of Christianity Today and is the author of the forthcoming book Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America (Penguin Random House).
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