Andrew Walls
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Oct 4, 2026
Jon ThompsonHOST
We, we're pilgrims.
Jon ThompsonHOST
I love what Andrew Walls once wrote when he said, "The Christian inherits a pilgrim principle which inspires him that he has no abiding city and warns them to be faithful to Christ, but that will put him out of step with society, for that society has never existed, East or West, ancient or modern, which could absorb the word of Jesus painlessly into its system." So Paul prays this prayer, and he says, "I want you to live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work." Now, here's the wild thing about this.
Jon ThompsonHOST
Here's what Paul is praying.
Jon ThompsonHOST
He says, "Lord, I want these people in the Colossian experience not just to learn who you are.
David UptonGUEST
Did you see that in those verses? It kept saying two, one, two, one, both, one.
David UptonGUEST
Andrew Walls put it this way.
David UptonGUEST
The church must be diverse because humanity is diverse.
David UptonGUEST
It must be one because Christ is one.
John OrtbergHOST
And now I think it's like 67 percent.
John OrtbergHOST
And it's going to keep growing so that the part of what's unique about Christianity, Andrew Walls writes about this, is most religions are still centered at the place where they were born.
John OrtbergHOST
Correct.
Glenn PackiamGUEST
Yeah.
Ken OrtizeHOST
But as those people fled, what did they do? They carried the gospel with them, and every place they touched down, the gospel became implanted and began to spread around the world.
Ken OrtizeHOST
So, again, as Andrew Walls, the late Christian historian, once wrote, he said that the power of the gospel tends to migrate to the places where Christianity is the weakest.
Ken OrtizeHOST
Wherever it becomes strong and it's widely accepted and becomes kind of the cultural standard, it's only a matter of time before it becomes enculturated and controlled by the culture.
Ken OrtizeHOST
And true biblical Christianity gets squeezed out of the plan because a true Christianity is not seeking for power and control and authority or wealth and prosperity.
Ken OrtizeHOST
The church has always flourished where it's faced the greatest opposition.
Ken OrtizeHOST
And, um, one historian, Andrew Walls, actually did a wonderful presentation on this whole idea that he said, if you follow the history of the church, they've always grown and spread in the places where it was antithetical a- and, uh, to the culture, and then begin to change the culture.
Ken OrtizeHOST
As soon as it became the ascendant expression of faith within any kind of region or culture, they began to apostate.
Ken OrtizeHOST
They began to lose that faith because they had come to a position of power.