KettleBellKid said:Great insights about contemporary American Christianity:
WorldMag The church will continue to reform according to the Word of God but change for change sake only satisfies a cultural shift and soon grows old.
Todd Wilken quoted Mike Horton who wrote about “the practical denial” of Scripture.
"While evangelicals and other conservative Protestants hold to a high doctrine of Scripture in principle, the last two decades have especially seen a growing disregard for making their sermons expositions of Scripture; rather, it's often the case that the Bible is used as a sourcebook of quotations for what we really want to say."
I think we've all seen this happen at one time or another when a pastor tries to make "his views" known and only uses the scripture text to satisfy the requirements in a worship service or to introduce a subject. This is often the problem with topical preaching versus exegetical preaching.
I think the author sums up his article about Bible believing liberals quite well with this quote:
Do Bible-believing liberals realize how liberal they really are? No. Are they well intentioned? Certainly! But the some of the old-line liberals were well intentioned too. St. Bernard of Clairvaux said, “Hell is full of good intentions.”
Wes
