{"id":1456,"date":"2010-07-27T13:29:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:49:31","slug":"doug-wilson-on-relevance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1456","title":{"rendered":"Doug Wilson on Relevance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance is a big topic in the church these days.\u00a0 Of course we ought to be relevant, but the issue is how such relevance is defined.\u00a0 Doug Wilson in his <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1591280613?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1591280613\">A Primer on Worship and Reformation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" dbbjwnprleoehtmqzkbz dbbjwnprleoehtmqzkbz egatgnsimdguhfetnfnf\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1591280613\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em> provides a good distinction between proper and improper irrelevance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are at least two kinds of irrelevance.\u00a0 One is the irrelevance of offering a bicycle to an oyster.\u00a0 But there is another kind of irrelevance entirely, and that is the practice of setting forth the gospel of light and righteousness to those who love their darkness and iniquity.\u00a0 We are <em>commanded<\/em> to be irrelevant in this second sense.\u00a0 We are called to worship God in a way that is pleasing to Him, and to which unbelievers will be attracted <em>only if God moves them in a sovereign and mysterious way<\/em>.&#8221;\u009d (13)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance is a big topic in the church these days.\u00a0 Of course we ought to be relevant, but the issue is how such relevance is defined.\u00a0 Doug Wilson in his A Primer on Worship and Reformation provides a good distinction between proper and improper irrelevance. &#8220;There are at least two kinds of irrelevance.\u00a0 One is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1456\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Doug Wilson on Relevance&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}