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Thursday, May 10, 2007

How do evangelicals undermine the message

I was visiting some blogs from wordpress.com and the following one captured my attention: How Pop-Evangelicals Undermine God in Evangelism. It is a very good and sound artcle, worht of reading.

Particularly now that some "emergent-movement" ideas have been going arround, not only in my church or this city, but in many places, I believe that whoever is the blog's author makes a good point. First of all, he tells the story of how mega -churches in the thirst of grotwth will develop strategies to get more and more people. But the surprise in the article is the lack of biblical perspective in the new methodology. Don't use the Bible in its original sense ... but use what is politically correct.

I just wanted to quote the following:
This really is perverted. See in effort to accommodate “seekers” or the “unchurched” or the “dechurched”, (unbelievers) they undermine the only message that can truly save their souls. It is no different than the doctor telling the guy with a tumor that he just has allergies. It is gospel malpractice. It is worse than being silent, it is misleading sinners and undermining God. God saves through his gospel of his son and this gospel is not up for revision. Evangelicals who try to get cute and smart (regardless of motives, for I do not know them) undermine God.


Whatever openness to "other gospels" or to accommodate the Bible to the "modern times" or "phylosophies" falls in the same category of perverted. Jesus himself warned his followers of those who would "change the message". I think that our calling is to remain firm and steady in the principles of the Kingdom, even to counterbalance perverted gospels.

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