Brian McLaren must be CNN’s “house boy evangelist.”
If he’s really an evangelical Christian, I challenge him to go evangelize and start up a church in Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Pakiston or Iran. Maybe then he might see how “peaceful” islam is.
Read the book Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas, the story about a true Christian martyr and a real model of resistance and staying true to the Gospel. Does this guy’s story in any way emulate that Bonhoeffer story. There were many McClarens in Germany 1933 to 1945, kowtowing to the Nazis, encouraging Christians to accept their servitude and accept a false evil gospel, to remain passive and allow yourself to be subjugated. To circle a square and say Nazism and its dedication to the goal of a socialist utopia was what Jesus would want. To ignore the atrocities, the anti Semitism, the hate, the violence. This man is coming very close to committing the unpardonable sin, blaspheming the Holy Spirit, attributing God’s word as evil and incomplete, saying the pure words of our Lord are really wrong, intolerant and that he Saint McClaren is the oracle of what God would want. I think if Jesus were here to walking among us today Islam would be the first thing he would address, refute, discredit and grind to dust.