Date: May 13th 2017
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Reject the Benedict Option


We Must Affirm Sola Scriptura

by Bob DeWaay

 

"Teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." (Matthew 28:20)


Conservative author Rod Dreher has written a popular book that promotes the claim that we must rebuild a Christian culture by learning from the 6th century monastic, Benedict.1 The underlying premise of the book is that Christianity needs a Christian culture in order to insure that our children are not assimilated into a culture of barbarism. This will likely involve removing ourselves from the current culture as much as possible. He compares this to the Jews coming out of Babylon (Dreher: 18). The danger, according to Dreher, is that our faith will not survive more than a couple generations.

This warning is particularly aimed at Christians in America.....


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