Comments on: Carl Trueman on Christian Celebrity Culture and the Church’s Future

By: Heath Lloyd

Heath Lloyd — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:06:39 +0000

I believe Trueman is right on here. It kind of frightens me, for several reasons. Indeed, too many people desire that the “gods do their thinking for them.”
I have wondered if there isn’t some conference promoter somewhere who is getting rich off of all this.
Beware.

By: owenstrachan

owenstrachan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:07:40 +0000

Garrett,

I heartily second your words, and don’t see much else to say. Amen. Very well said.

By: Garrett Wishall

Garrett Wishall — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:25:52 +0000

Owen,

I agree w/ your thoughts and appreciate Trueman’s article.

Where do go from here? How do we not encourage the propagation of a celebrity culture in the church? Or, as the Together for the Gospel organizers have chosen to do, do we leverage the celebrity culture for the sake of the Gospel?

It seems that individual Christians need to live out their faith in reliance upon God and active involvement and membership in a local church. Pastors need to exhort people to use their own gifts to build up the church (Eph 4).

And then, with those things in place, we take advantage of the technology of our day to learn from John Piper, Mark Dever, Russell Moore, etc.