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I’m always mindful of where I’m preaching. If I’m in the heart of a Christian community, I just let fly with all my Christian language and theology. If I know there may be people coming in from all over, I try to preach something that will sound like good news to everybody sitting there.

Barbara Brown Taylor, on preaching, in the April 2009 issue of Baptists Today. We can probably all appreciate the good intentions behind this statement, but isn’t this a quite different approach from Pentecost and Mars Hill, not to mention the preaching of Jesus, which sounded like bad news (in the short run) and really good news (in the long run), instead of the other way around?

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.

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About Russell Moore

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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