Full Strength Christianity: Introduction

Last year, I was watching a video from Mark Vernon where he used the phrase, Full Strength Christianity. Mark is not some outrageous manosphere personality on social media, but a mild-mannered meta-physicist.

He coined the phrase to describe what the future Church needs to look like. And it’s a phrase I’m hearing more and more.

The Modern Western church is far from exhibiting a ‘Full Strength Christianity’. It has significantly compromised with the secular world, to the point where it would be unrecognisable to even the medieval adherents of the Gospel of Jesus.

Modern secular Christians have traded away Eternity for a pile of earth. They have downgraded the Son of Man to simply a man. They have agreed with the materialist’s frame, and act as though anything spiritual doesn’t really exist or at least is unimportant.

The Modern Western Church is in a ‘grave-state’. I literally mean, the Church is lying in its death-bed waiting to be given its last rites. But the thing about the Body of Christ is, it has a habit of resurrecting.

The Church was all but dead in Soviet Russia. Though it is clear on reflection, it was simply dormant. As soon as Soviet Communism died and the brief ‘free-market capitalist’ experiment failed in the 1990s, the Russian Church returned with great vigour. Thousands of new churches were built across the whole of the country.

Equally, in the Modern West, the Church can still be revived. I am always hearing stories of new converts to Christianity. But, unless the Church embraces a theological stronger Christianity, these new members of the Body of Christ will not be discipled and will likely fall away.

Depending on which denomination a Christian belongs to will inform what they would think constitutes Full Strength Christianity. For example, a Charismatic’s view of this will be different to an Orthodox Christian’s view.

So in this series, I will address the topics below and discuss how the Western Church can once again become more deeply connected to the Tradition and by extension, Full Strength Christianity.

Topics to be covered will include:

• Modern Secularism

• Resurrection from the Dead

• Miracles

• Forgiveness of Sins

• Joy

• Theosis

• Communion of the Saints

• Objective Morality