Christians Satisfied in Vanity Fair?

Carl Trueman writes this a penetrating article about how evangelicals tend to domesticate our radicals, referring specifically to Jesus, but spending most of his time on C.S. Lewis and John Bunyan--very interesting!

At the end of the article, he explains the sinful reasons why we tend to domesticate our radicals in this very insightful paragraph:

"Given the way in which evangelical culture in America is so deeply embedded in the systems, practices and aspirations of American culture in general–-from its colleges and seminaries to its publishing houses to its relentless vision of `big is best’ to its personality cults of celebrity theologians to its mega-ministries to its amazing ability to transform anyone – even the patrician Anglican C S Lewis and the radical tinker John Bunyan – into friendly evangelical allies, the outlook is not bright. To put it bluntly, we live in Vanity Fair, and we seem to be quite happy there."

People, pastors and churches that don't address this reality will have a very difficult time experiencing sanctification while being so unknowingly and satisfyingly embedded in the sin-driven culture that we tend to love so much.