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Tim Keller on Pastoral Ministry and neo-Calvinism

Grace in Common

CHAPTER

The Church Is Not an American Thing

Marinus is not the first Dutch neo-Calvinist to go to America and then say publicly, the church does not exist in America. And instead it's a consumer product. So his illustrious predecessor in that claim was Herman Boving himself. But one of his claims is that the church isn't an American thing. The idea that there is this distinct thing that lays claim on you Instead, it’s a consumer product and you work out what you want from it instead. It's another part of the kind of shopping mall of life.

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