released 6/16/2023
Theologian Lesslie Newbigin wrote that in the New Testament, conversion is “not only a conversion of the will and of the feelings but a conversion of the mind — a ‘paradigm shift’ that leads to a new vision of how things are.” In the early Church, recognition of the necessity for that radical change fostered deliberate practices of discipleship and formation. Today’s churches typically ignore the extent to which believers (young and old) have been formed by the surrounding culture. In interviews from our Archives, D. H. Williams, Michael Budde, and Robert Brimlow comment on the contrast between then and now.
26 minutes
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