I mentioned in an earlier blog that I spent some time this summer with Canada’s finest philosopher Charles Taylor. To be fair, he was nowhere to be found, but his massive tome, A Secular Age, was in my hands a lot over the warmer months of the year. I also mentioned in the previous blog that ‘Scripture alone should be the sole influencer of our social imaginary’ or something like that. I then said I would provide more information on this in a future blog… this is that blog. T

On Sunday I spoke about my greatest fear for my ministry and for our church -- Assumed Evangelicalism, or to put it in the vernacular, assuming the gospel. Or to put it into business terms, mission drift. Or to put it in Pauline terms, making that which is of first importance, anything other than that. Here is the definition of Assumed Evangelicalism as defined by David Gibson, the author who originated the term. Assumed Evangelicalism believes and signs up to the gospel. It