Progressive Christianity is not Christianity.

Cultural Christianity is not Christianity.

If adding a word before the words Christian or Christianity, true Christianity is null and void. It’s another gospel. A gospel of man, of the world, therefore, its true origins are of the devil and not of God.

Progressive and cultural heresy does not mean with the inerrant, infallible, unchangeable, eternal, living, and active word of God.

Living doesn’t mean it changes; that God changes and adapts to the culture. God is immutable. Individuals do not change God; individuals change by God, for God, through obedience to God and His whole word.

If saying “____________ Christianty,” or writing it immediately there is confusion in the mind of the hearer or the reader. Because the subject in question is given the mantle of Christian, just a different kind of one.

As if there is more than one possible path to God, more than one Christianity to believe, serve faithfully to attain eternal life.

It’s evident if having a foundation in the Holy Bible, there is a constant battle within churches to keep the wolves out so they do not devour the lambs, most of whom have itching ears in these last of the last times and are keen to listen, read, attend, and follow every honey dripping tongued serpent standing at a pulpit espousing feel good, social justice, heretical words.

Words are important.

We have grown so lax, so lazy, so dumbed down, so complicit, so accommodating of the world with language.

There is a day of reckoning coming. For all.

Try reading past verse one of Matthew 7 and throwing that around, not using it in context, because the context isn’t known by the speaker, the reader. Ironic, and it would be hilarious, if not so serious, such a serious topic, those identifying as cultural heretics know little or nothing not only of the Holy Bible, but of history, of the culture of the Middle East, of Israel, and all the various peoples of the time.

Keep reading. Discern well and wisely:

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them. Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

Matthew 7:13-27

Words.

Rather important. Understanding them, using them.

People don’t want to submit, don’t want to obey, don’t want to conform to God’s ways due to their loving the world and conforming to its ways.

There are only two kinds of people on the earth. Wherever, whoever. Only two kinds of people on this earth.

Christ followers, BORN AGAIN, RENEWED OF MIND, and changed in SPIRIT, a changed HEART. OBEYING God, OBEYING the Holy Bible.

This is a supernatural occurrence. From God. We seek Him after His always seeking us. We submit, confess our sin, our lostness, we profess with our heart, with our lips faith in the LORD Jesus Christ and obey, serve, humbly coming to understand real love, the meaning of life, having understanding of what God did in coming to earth and taking on skin, what He endured. Examine it closely, intently, deeply sometime. Then say it can be dismissed. Doesn’t matter.

We obey, as much as possible, as we all wrestle with the flesh vs. the spirit in this escalating spiritual war. But — if and when indwelt of the Holy Spirit, there is a KNOWING WITHIN.

There are those people. And then everyone else. No matter what they may believe.

Each person is either a born again, renewed of mind and spirit follower, disciple of the LORD Jesus Christ, or they aren’t.

Only those two kinds of people on all the earth.

Read on…

Ken Pullen, Friday, September 19th, 2025

The Dangers of Cultural Christianity: A Hollow Faith That Cannot Save

September 18, 2025

By PNW Staff

Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch

One of the greatest threats to Christianity today is not atheism, not Islam, not secularism, not even persecution. It is something much closer to home, something deceptively safe and outwardly respectable. It is what we might call cultural Christianity.

Cultural Christianity looks good on the outside. It nods approvingly at the Bible, praises Jesus as a good teacher, and acknowledges that Christian morality has been “good for the world.” But it stops there. It has no cross, no repentance, no new birth. It’s a faith that wants the benefits of Christ without bowing the knee to Christ.

And that is not Christianity. It is a hollow counterfeit.

What Is Cultural Christianity?

Cultural Christianity comes in many disguises. It’s the child who thinks they are saved because their parents are believers. It’s the man who says, “I believe in God” but never bends his life to the will of that God. It’s the fan who binge-watches The Chosen and assumes emotional admiration equals spiritual conversion.

At its most extreme, it’s the so-called “Christian atheist”–the person who rejects God altogether but still calls themselves Christian because they think “being good” is enough. Good in whose eyes? Their own.

This is the great danger: cultural Christianity doesn’t deny religion, it repurposes it. Instead of seeking what is true, it makes faith a tool for worldly goals: respectability, tradition, family heritage, or a vague sense of moral superiority. It’s not about worshiping God–it’s about using God.

Why It’s Dangerous

The danger is not just that cultural Christianity is shallow. The danger is that it is deadly. It deceives people into thinking they have the real thing when in fact they have nothing.

Jesus warned us about this: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven.” Paul described people who “have a form of godliness but deny its power.” It’s possible to know all the right words and still be far from Christ.

And here’s the brutal truth: cultural Christianity cannot endure the fire. The person who merely admires Jesus as a good example will not stand when following Him requires sacrifice. Only the one who knows Him as Savior and Lord will endure.

The Illusion of Borrowed Fruit

Here’s another danger: cultural Christianity feeds off the faith of others. The beauty it admires–the dignity of human life, the stability of law, the compassion of charity–those were built by real Christians who actually believed the gospel.

But take away true faith, and the fruit rots. The branch withers when it is cut from the root. The moral order we enjoy today did not spring out of thin air. It came from believers who prayed, obeyed, and often died for Christ. Cultural Christianity wants the fruit but rejects the tree.

Even today, notables like Elon Musk and Richard Dawkins have admitted Christianity is “good for society.” Better that than hostility, yes–but let’s not be fooled. Christianity’s cultural blessings are not self-sustaining. They exist only because for centuries, millions of men and women really believed. Without real Christians, cultural Christianity dies with them.

The Good News They Miss

Elon Musk, after calling himself a “cultural Christian,” warned that unless more courage is shown, “Christianity will perish.” In part, he was right–cowardly churches do collapse. But in the bigger sense, he could not be more wrong.

Christianity will never perish. Not in this world, not in the next. Churches may falter. Western influence may fade. But Christ Himself is risen. He has overcome the world. The kingdom of God is not propped up by cultural admiration. It is secured by the blood of the Lamb.

The Choice That Cannot Be Avoided

This is why cultural Christianity is so dangerous: it flatters but never saves. It admires but never bows. It praises Jesus as a moral teacher but ignores Him as Lord. Yet as C.S. Lewis put it, Christ has not left that option open to us:

“Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. … But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

That is the dividing line. The world may admire Christ from afar, but eternity will be decided by whether we kneel before Him now.

A Hollow Faith or a Living Lord

So let us be clear: cultural Christianity is not Christianity. It cannot save. It cannot withstand suffering. It cannot bring hope beyond the grave.

True Christianity is not about family heritage, good morals, or respect for tradition. It is about surrender. It is about worship. It is about a cross, and an empty tomb, and a living King who demands our lives.

Cultural Christianity will always fade. Christ never will. The only question is whether we will cling to the hollow shell–or to the living Lord who fills it with power, truth, and eternal life.