Immanence, Transcendence and Assumed Knowledge

Today, I had the pleasure of filling in for my friend Matt Svoboda (one of the pastors at The Bridge in Spring Hill, TN) in his Theology Thursday series. Here's an excerpt:

There was a time when if you used the term "God," the vast majority of people would know who and what you were talking about. Generally speaking, the West was "Christian;" people had at least a passing familiarity with the Bible and the majority of the population went to some form of Christian church (it was, after all...