What Keeps us from Experiencing Renewal

There’s a quote by H. Richard Niebuhr that I believe is absolutely true.  “The great Christian revolutions,” he argued, “come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when somebody takes radically something that was always there.” 

Every culture has a way of domesticating the gospel and creating certain accommodations to it. In the Medieval period, the accommodation was often towards violence. Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount