The basic premise of my writings is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord over every area of life, biblical wisdom is the greatest love for human beings, and we are losing our culture due to a self-imposed spiral of silence.
Although I will often reference Scripture, I’m not writing as an academic or theologian, but as a fellow traveler who is deeply concerned with the direction of our nation. Many of the thoughts and interpretations expressed in Winning the World and my blog posts can be traced to respected biblical scholars and theologians (see a partial list below).
These Christians have greatly influenced by thinking, but none of them would agree with every point I offer. It is my hope that the reader will find my perspectives plausible, biblically orthodox, and infused with redemptive possibility.
To better convey my hope, I draw on introductory remarks made by C.S. Lewis in the introduction of his book on the Psalms:
“This is not a work of scholarship… If an excuse is needed (and perhaps it is) for writing such a book, my excuse would be something like this. It often happens that two schoolboys can solve difficulties in their work for one another better than the master can… The fellow-pupil can help more than the master because he knows less. The difficulty we want him to explain is one he has recently met. The expert met it so long ageo that he has forgotten. He sees the whole subject, by now, in such a different light that he cannot conceive what is really troubling the pupil; he sees a dozen other difficulties which ought to be troubling him but aren’t.
“In this book, then, I write as one amateur to another, talking about difficulties I have met, or lights I have gained… with the hope that this might at any rate interest, and sometimes even help, other inexpert readers. I am comparing notes, not presuming to instruct.”
~ C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms
My fellow-pupil approach would not be possible without the enlightenment provided by this partial list of scholars: Dallas Willard, Matthew Henry, St. Augustine, Jonathan Edwards, C.S. Lewis, John Calvin, Eugene Peterson, Marcellus Kik, R.J. Rushdoony, Jacques Ellul, Francis Schaffer, Herbert Schlossberg, Gary DeMar, N.T. Wright, Loraine Boettner, Kenneth Gentry, R.C. Sproul, and others.
