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To: kosciusko51
"Based on what his website believes, he seems to be more interested in the current culture than the truth."

Unfortunately, the beliefs expressed on his website, while a bit more extreme, are very consistent with what has come to be known as the "emerging" or "emergent" church movement. This is a movement that seeks to make church more "relevant" to the present culture (which is not necessarily a bad thing), but actually often ends up accommodating and compromising with the culture (a very bad thing). These churches tend to avoid dealing with difficult issues, such as abortion, homosexuality, etc. Their typical cliche they use to dodge tough issues is to say "We want to be known for what we're for rather than what we're against." That sounds good to the unthinking, but the reality is that as Christians we should be know for both. How does someone come to repentance (something else they avoid discussing - "might offend someone") and therefore realize they need salvation if the church just keeps implying that they're fine regardless of how they are living their lives?

Many of our churches have fallen for this faulty line of reasoning. It's seductive because it promises an easy path on which pastors never need to worry about being called nasty names or being labeled as "intolerant." But in the end, it's just a lie. No competent reading of the Bible can lead to a conclusion that Christians should avoid difficult issues and compromise with evil, just so that people engaged in sin won't be offended. It's just that we are surrounded these days by too many intellectually lazy Christians who mistakenly think that Jesus's directive to love everyone somehow requires us to tolerate whatever sin and evil they choose to engage in. That is completely wrong.

24 posted on 07/22/2015 12:19:01 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: noiseman
Many of our churches have fallen for this faulty line of reasoning. It's seductive because it promises an easy path on which pastors never need to worry about being called nasty names or being labeled as "intolerant." But in the end, it's just a lie.

Yes, thank you; very well said.
27 posted on 07/22/2015 12:24:50 PM PDT by mlizzy ("Tell your troubles to Jesus," my wisecracking father used to say, and now I do.......at adoration.)
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To: noiseman

The “emerging” or “emergent” church movement is what Paul warned us about:

2 Timothy 4:3

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.


28 posted on 07/22/2015 12:25:26 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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