Evangelical Leaders Identify ‘Poorly Formed Christians’ Among Top 5 Challenges Facing Church

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(Photo: The Christian Post/Leonardo Blair)Timothy Keller, senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, speaks at Movement Day Global Cities at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City on Thursday, October 27, 2016.

Tim Keller, along with the leadership of the Gospel Coalition, listed five main challenges and five main opportunities facing the Christian church in 2018. Among the challenges are “poorly formed Christians.” 

“As we look back on 2017 and look forward to 2018, many evangelicals are confused and concerned, worried about trends in the broader culture and also within their churches,” wrote the Gospel Coalition’s leaders in an article Wednesday.

The leaders include Vice President Keller, who earlier this year stepped away from full-time preaching at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City; President Don Carson, Board Chairman Kevin DeYoung, and Executive Director Ben Peays.

“They see a deepening secularism, threats to religious liberty, and growing cultural hostility to biblical Christianity. But some see the threats from within the church as even more worrisome,” they stated.

“Sin” was the first main challenge listed, with Carson noting that its effects are “wide-ranging.”

“One of the particularly insidious idolatries of our age, at least in Western…

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