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Tim Keller Says Christians Cannot Reach the World Without โ€œGreat Christian Artโ€

by | Jan 5, 2020 | News, The Church, Theology

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Tim Keller is bad for the Church. Really bad. Like bad news and bad influence. Besides the fact that Keller is one of the foremost propagators of the serious error that one can reject biblical creation and still be a Christian, Keller has influenced the Church toward social gospel heresies, Pagan mysticism, and contemplative prayer. (Iโ€™ve laid all this out in the article, Whatโ€™s the Fascination With Tim Keller.)

Interestingly, Keller seems to have embraced a new form of gospel obfuscation that heโ€™s recently been promoting. A few weeks ago, Keller made the absurd assertion on Twitter that the gospel did not spread in the early church by preaching and evangelism โ€” despite the overwhelming proof and biblical mandate otherwise โ€” but by โ€œlife examples,โ€ whatever that is. Now, heโ€™s saying that unless we have โ€œgreat Christian art,โ€ weโ€™re never going to reach the lost.

Now, I donโ€™t exactly know what he believes is โ€œgreat Christian art,โ€ but one thing is for sure โ€” the Scriptures never speak of such a necessity for reaching the lost. In fact, the Bible is abundantly clear on what Christians need to reach the world.

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, โ€œHow beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!โ€ But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, โ€œLord, who has believed what he has heard from us?โ€ So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 10:14-17

If I had to guess, I would say that someone really needs to reach Tim Keller. Keller has always suffered from theological ataxia, but the stuff heโ€™s been saying lately makes me wonder if heโ€™s not completely lost his marbles. No sane, honest student of the Scriptures could ever walk away with the conclusions heโ€™s been pressing lately. But, coming from a man who held an effeminate ballet production at his church a few years ago, calling that โ€œart,โ€ perhaps we could never really know for sure what heโ€™s thinking.

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