Much of modern Western evangelicalism can be likened to a defective cookery book in which the methods are specified, but the ingredients are not or, at best, are very weakly defined.
The preparation details, oven temperature, technique etc., are given an inordinate amount of attention but the ingredients are overlooked. This article explores the concepts of style and content-relevance and truth, and urges us not to make truth a secondary matter.
Christianity is essentially a religion of content-in that it sets forth truth-as truth to be understood, heeded, nurtured, defended and propagated. Throughout its history, Christianity has been characterised by repeated struggles to retain and protect the truth. Not surprisingly, both the Bible and history show that it is precisely when the people of God have taken the truth of his word seriously that they have been most effective. Truth does make a difference. This is content.
