A Practical Postmillennialism (NEW SERIES)
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ANNOUNCING A BRAND NEW SERIES
In the same way you cannot play hopscotch in San Francisco without stepping on a heroin needle, you also cannot play in the halls of modern Christianity without very quickly bumping into one of her many idols. Evangelicalism, instead of being known for a bold addiction to Jesus, a committed love for the church and saints, or a lionhearted courage to see the world transformed by His Gospel, the church has unfortunately been fixated on “Moscow Moods,” big entertainment driven churches, shallow carnal worship styles, influence peddling among pagans, appearing winsome to God-haters, and an ethic that transforms absolutely nothing. If anything, it is evangelicalism who is slowly being conformed to the culture instead of the other, more Biblical, way around.
Somewhere along the way, it seems clear to me we have lost our zeal, lost our salt, and lost our stones. There are, of course, many reasons for this that should and very well could be explored. Yet, while the lethargy and impotence of the Western Church in the modern world could be laid at the feet of a thousand idols, I believe the eschatological sewage known as dispensationalism is an excellent place to begin applying the Postmillennial wet wipes. In the same way a parent cleans the soiled diaper out of love and care for the child, we who love Christ’s Church must discard the soggy polluted garments that dispensationalism have filled with odious piles of theological skoobala.
For this reason, I would like to announce a brand-new series that we will be doing on the Prodcast. Instead of the prophetic day-traders who speculate on newspaper exegesis, I would like to offer Jesus' Church a better and more Biblical way. I want to expose dispensationalism for what it is and why it is a failed viewpoint, and then I would like to build a positive case for the postmillennial view.
Now, just in case "ism" terms like postmillennialism and dispensationalism are scary for you, I want to do this much differently than the standard fare. Instead of nerding out, beating our chests, with a litany of sesquipedalian references that the average Christian is totally unfamiliar with, why not write something that is actually helpful? Why not allow God's people to see how defeatism and pessimism are dispensational tools that the devil uses to discourage us? Why not show God's people how the Lord is expanding His victory to the ends of the earth and show them how to practically get involved?
In this series, called "A Practical Postmillennialism," I will be diving into what postmillennialism is and what it means for our lives. I will be looking at how the Bible promises God's victory and how that victory works itself out in every aspect of your life. This series will show you how to live in light of a robust, theological optimism that will seep into who you are as a man, woman, mom, dad, churchman, and member of a rotting and decaying society that needs Jesus.
My aim in this series is for the Church to abandon the defeatism we have been force-fed by Hal Lindsey, Left Behind, David Jeremiah, and even many of our Amillennial brothers and to embrace the Biblical case for the ongoing total victory of Jesus Christ. And when we embrace that, when we are actually heading in the same direction with Jesus, it is my prayer that it will invigorate every aspect of our lives and fuel the next reformation of the Church.
Join us next week as we throw eschatological defeatism in the diaper genie where it belongs and begin building a case for a practical, helpful, life-changing, Kingdom-invigorating postmillennialism.
