Read: Alan Noble, Disruptive Witness. A lot of it is aimed at a more evangelical audience to whom, for example, the idea that corporate worship should be reverent might be a novel idea. But it was well worth reading. I especially valued his look at the way our distraction-based culture encourages people to accept the Gospel in a sense, but as part of what he calls the “identity formation” project that typifies modern experience. It’s harder than ever to make people see that the Gospel is factual and a matter of life and death. My take-away: to witness authentically, a Christian has to be visibly more than a secular person with some peculiar beliefs. But hasn’t this always been true?