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Why Churchless Christianity Doesn’t Work (News)

Kevin DeYoung defends the institutional church

Tuesday 1 September 2009 by Family Ministry

A steady stream of books with titles like Pagan Christianity?, Quitting Church, Life After Church, and They Like Jesus But Not the Church show that some of the church’s staunchest critics come from within. Many Christians advocate an ecclesiology in which church is understood merely as the plural of Christian; hanging out at a café talking about Jesus is just as valid an expression of "doing church" as traditional models, if not more valid, because it is more relevant to the culture.

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