Any individual on earth is either a true Christian, thus a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, a true child of God transformed by the Supernatural power of the Spirit of God, renewed of mind and spirit, born anew to live a changed life with the Triune God their uppermost priority, believing every word within the Word of God or…

…they are not that kind of individual.

There are no variations. No shades to Christniaty. A person either is a true Christian or they are not. It is black and white. No gray to it. And true Christians believe in and live their lives according to the whole inerrant living word of God. Not according to the world, fads, trends, some self-help book written by a professed Christian writer. Wearing a crucifix, a symbol of great shame as jewelry in silver, gold, platinum, or whatever material, and attending something calling itself a church doesn’t make a person a Christian. It merely makes them a person wearing some jewelry and spending some time in a church. That’s all.

What is truly in the heart? What is truly in the mind? What is truly of the spirit? What fruit is borne? Any?

Appeasement, feeling good, making people happy, not upsetting anyone, everyone inanely smiling like they’ve had a lobotomy and thinking that allowing every sin under the sun is permissible because, well, we can’t judge you know it is not only anti-Christian it’s downright ignorant.

There are only true Christians and everybody else.

Either children of God or children of disobedience. Each person that was once darkness is either now light by their true faith and obedience to God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Word of God or they remain darkness.

This isn’t complicated. This isn’t something to hold conferences about, have debates about, and so on. It’s all very clear, very direct, and very easy to know and understand.

There is no such thing as a progressive Christian or any other hyphenated Christian. One either is or they aren’t.

You can pretend, You can lie. You can put on a good act for folks. You can justify your actions.

But God knows.

God knows every heart every thought every moment within every person.

So who are you really fooling?

Because in the end? It’s either heaven or hell for one and all and pretending doesn’t get one to the former place. Not according to me. There’s a book that will explain all this to you. Clearly. Plainly. It’s called the Holy Bible. It isn’t to be messed with, altered, or made into what anyone wants it to be but it is what it is and eternally will be — the Word of God!

Try debating Him and see where it gets you.

Ken Pullen, Monday, May 23rd, 2022 — A CROOKED PATH

It’s Not Progressive Christianity, It’s Accommodationist Christianity, and It Has Nothing of Christ In It

BIBLICAL BEASTS, Other Writers, The Church

May 23, 2022

Reprinted from PatriotandLiberty

These are the days described by C.S. Lewis when he said everything eventually comes to a point.  By this he meant the good get better and the evil more evil.     Within the whole body of the church, the shrinking of the orthodox church—RCC, Protestant, Orthodox—grows smaller yet more faithful, committed, and determined—while the Christless ‘church’ grows larger and more worldly.

In Ephesians 1: 7-10, Paul tells the faithful that “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace….according to His purpose, which He set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and on earth.”   
Early Church Fathers spoke of the young church as united.    It was not at that time divided into hostile denominations shooting arrows at each other and claiming to be the only truth and way.  That came later.  

In our time a remnant is emerging and it appears the Lord is now bringing His sheep and His church into unity once again.   After all, in Paradise there will be no one saying “I am RCC,” or “I am Protestant,” or “I am Orthodox.”   We will all be united as brothers and sisters in Christ according to His plan for the fullness of time.  ~  Linda Kimball

By TOM GILSON , The Stream, 5/17/22

The world is polarizing, and the contagion has hit Christianity. I used to think we were splintered into all kinds of factions. More and more, though, we’re separating into just two. The two groups have fuzzy edges and points of overlap, but the distinction is there, it’s real, and I think it opens up huge layers of understanding.

The first group I call Anchored, meaning, they anchor their truths in the Word of God. It’s not their only source of truth, but they are convinced that where it speaks, it speaks truly and with authority. So their goal is to understand it properly and follow it faithfully. They know they fall short, but the goal remains for them regardless.

The second group I call Accommodationist, meaning that they’ll give honor in some sense to the Word of God, but they want their message to fit in better with the world somehow. They’re Christian in name, but they don’t mind altering their message to make it more accommodating to the world.

Accommodationism comes in all kinds of flavors, but none more obvious than Progressive Christianity. Progressive Christians like the Bible well enough in the places where they think it’s inspiring, where it tells them about love and sharing and good things God wants to give us. They like it a lot less when it makes people uncomfortable. They set it completely on those points, or else they come up with creative new interpretations.

Accommodationist in Action

I heard a fine example the other day, an episode of Unbelievable? with Calvin Robinson debating Robyn Henderson-Espinoza. Robinson is a good example of what I’m calling Anchored. Henderson-Espinoza is “woke” but won’t own up to it. I’ll even have to guess at Henderson-Espinoza’s sex. The voice and the photo are both ambiguous, and he or she wouldn’t commit to being male, female or whatever. I think “Robyn” is more likely a woman, but who knows?

Anyway, the Church of England has been delaying Robinson’s full ordination because of his conservative theology. Henderson-Espinoza sounded so empathetic: “I don’t know why they wouldn’t accept you on your own terms.”

It means that even in His own Church, Jesus should let His priest candidates set the terms. He may be God, but He’s got no business telling anyone He’s got standards!

It was almost as if she was siding with him for a moment. She was doing exactly the opposite instead. She seems to think the Church should accept priests on their own terms; that the Church should adapt; that it shouldn’t matter what a priest believes. Let the ordinand set the terms!

There’s no way Robinson would agree with that, even to his own advantage. Think what it must mean, if the Church is still Christ’s church. It means that even in His own Church, Jesus should let His priest candidates set the terms. He may be God, but He’s got no business telling anyone He’s got standards!

Nonsense.

Twisting ‘Jesus’ to Fit

Accommodationists love saying Jesus was a loving, tolerant, probably even socialist “ethical teacher,” who accepted everyone and never wanted anyone to have to change, other than being more loving and tolerant, of course. I marvel when I hear that. Do they even know how to read?

We have written evidence of the kind of person Jesus was. You can either go with that evidence, or you can make up some other Jesus of your own. If you do the inventing thing, honesty says you ought to say so. If you go with the record we have, then you simply cannot say they tell the story of a life like they imagine.

Hear me through as I say this, please, but Jesus was as non-accommodating as a person could possibly be. Of course He was empathetic, He was caring, and He was perfectly loving. Everywhere He went, He met people where they were and gave them what they needed most. For some it was healing, others deliverance, others a word of God’s forgiveness. That’s true compassion.

Grace and Truth, Both in Full Measure

And we’re bound to think compassion like that probably requires bending oneself to accommodate others’ desires. That’s how it works in our experience, but that’s because none of us has Jesus’ astonishing ability to live out every strength at once. For us, “every strength has its corresponding weakness,” so that even where we’re strong, we’re never strong in all the right ways. With Jesus, it was every strength was strong, period. That’s not just some “faith” statement, it’s the way the record depicts Him.

So He was full of grace, 100 percent compassionate and loving. He was also 100 percent full of truth (see John 1:14,17): eternal, objective truth that transcends every possible human want or desires. His grace was completely truthful, His truth absolutely gracious.

How Jesus Refused to Accommodate Anyone Else’s Plans

And He was surprisingly unyielding in many ways. I’d wager people called Him stubborn. He came with a mission to fulfill; it was His mission and no one else’s; and people tried bending Him off it, but He refused every time. He wouldn’t budge. He wouldn’t accommodate.

Take His early visit to Nazareth, for example. It’s in Luke 4:16-30. He gave a message in the synagogue, and the folks there loved it. They were so proud of their local boy! “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they said. He was their hometown hero, and they wanted to claim Him for their own.

He would have none of it. He spoke scripture in response, but he chose two instances when God took care of Gentiles instead of Jews. The message couldn’t have been clearer: “I’m not going to be your hometown boy.”

He was surprisingly unyielding in many ways. I’d wager people called Him stubborn.

So, how’d they take to that? They tried to throw Him off a cliff! That’s not what you call accommodating yourself to your crowd.

His family got embarrassed over Him, and what did He do? He said His real family were the people who obey God.

That’s not accommodating yourself, either.

The Cross is Final Proof of the Point

Lots of people wanted Him to be their military messiah, to drive Rome out of Israel. He took a path that couldn’t have been more opposite, allowing Rome to kill Him on one of their supremely humiliating crosses instead. That was what He came to do, and He made sure it would happen even when Pilate was reluctant to do it. His disciples had already tried more than once to head him off from it, but from the moment He “set His face to go to Jerusalem,” He refused to accommodate Himself to any of these wishes.

He refused to accommodate anyone in His message, too, which does a lot to explain how He got in trouble with Rome. He taught truth the Jewish leaders didn’t like, and He kept on teaching it. If He’d accommodated Himself to them, they would have left Him alone.

The cross was humiliation, it was death, and it is also the final conclusive proof that Jesus wasn’t about to accommodate His message, His truth, or His mission to anyone else’s wishes.

Anchored or Accommodationist: Which Way Are You Going?

Progressive Christians say they’re following Jesus’ example. That’s not remotely true. Even where they model some of their work after some of Jesus’ example, it’s actions without anchoring, which is completely unlike Jesus. So accommodationist “Christianity” is really more like Accommodationist nothing-ianity. It erases the real Jesus and replaces Him with an empty nothing.

The real Jesus lived grace and truth together and equally. The two virtues can coexist, and He proved it. Those who are Anchored know this and strive to emulate Him in it. We’ll get it wrong sometimes, and annoy people in the process. That’s what you get for trying sometimes, but you still have to try. We can annoy people getting it right, too. Thankfully the Bible guides us in that, as it does in all other matters that really matter.

So our Anchor can’t be whether people like us or not. It’s whether we’re following Jesus. The real Jesus. The One who still gets to set the terms.

Tom Gilson (@TomGilsonAuthor) is a senior editor with The Stream and the author or editor of six books, including the recently released Too Good To Be False: How Jesus’ Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality.