Let’s be very clear. There is the Christianity which is found in the New Testament from the Gospel of Matthew through the Book of Revelation and then there is everything else. Which is not Christianity. Period.

There is no such thing as a “progressive Christian,” or a “worldly Christian.” There are true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, truly transformed and renewed by the power of the Spirit of God — and then everyone else. Period.

It’s very clear. To any who would only open up a book called the Holy Bible. Pray for understanding and clarity. Read and come to know. There is no such thing as being able to be a practicing homosexual, lesbian, or cross-dresser (with the perversion of language now known as being transgender though there is only male and female and you are what you were born. Period).

Within the gospel, the one and only true gospel of the New Testament it is not muddled, unclear, sketchy, or uncertain what happens to any who practice and live in sin unrepentant, those who practice sexual immoralities, perversions, deviancies, who disobey God, reject the teachings of Jesus Christ — and none of His teachings or the apostles selected by Jesus ever preached or espoused that the sexual immorality of homosexuality was permitted, excused, accepted or would not be judged and dealt with accordingly.

There are only authentic, true Christians — true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ who put aside the ways and beliefs of this world, who put aside self and serve and obey the Lord. And what is contained within the Word of God for our instruction, edification, and life. Eternal life. And to any and all who corrupt this truth? Deny this truth? Attempt to omit or add to this truth? Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ will judge every single one. Accordingly. No excuses.

God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Bible have not changed one iota, not one joy or tittle since before the Creation. And They do not “adapt” or “change” to suit men and women. Men and women are to submit to the Lord. Period.

There are only true believers, true Christians, true disciples, and then everyone else.

That’s just how it is.

Not because I say so — it’s how the only one true gospel and Word of God says so.

And each person either truly believes, truly is regenerated and transformed by the Holy Spirit, truly is born anew and puts away the ways of the world, lives to put aside the ways of the flesh knowing the wages of sin is death, and truly lives as a disciple to the Master living to please Him and serve Him.

Period.

There is no such thing as a “progressive Christian” and to fall prey to using such language only validates the lies, the inaccuracies, and adds to the confusion.

All this abuse, corruption and perversion of language, the erosion of language, the laziness and falling into the snare of adopting such language — with another example of saying or writing “gay” rather than what it really is, homosexual, reveals the erosion. How such wrong things creep in and become accepted. Shrugged off. And if one now remains steadfast and does not resort to being lazy in language, in not falling into lockstep with the world they are viewed as irrelevant, out of touch, and mocked.

The language of God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit has not changed since before the Creation.

And sinful, lazy, corrupted fallen man and woman are not going to change the language of God merely because they can’t accept, refuse, deny, and will not submit to the one true gospel, they will not submit to Almighty God.

There is only one gospel. One true gospel and only true Christians, true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then everyone else in the world.

Period.

It’s very clear. Very simple. Very plain and easy to see, know, and understand.

It’s just that such a clear truth does not sit well with most folks.

And they imagine, in vain, dangerously in vain they can create God in their image rather than accepting it is God who did and does the creating and is Sovereign over all things. And there is only one true gospel of and about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Period.

Everything else falls short. Is vain. Is a lie. Is the path to death. Eternal death. The second death.

Do not be among the deceived now given over to strong delusion in these times.

 

Ken Pullen

Saturday, October 10th, 2020

ACP — A Crooked Path

 

Why Progressive Christianity is “Another Gospel” (Audio)

 

October 9, 2020

By John Stonestreet

Reprinted from BREAKPOINT

 

According to recent survey, nearly a third of self-described evangelicals do not believe that Jesus Christ is truly God. Arianism, as it turns out, is a heresy that plagues multiple generations of the Church, not just the one of the fourth century.

Well, over and over the Church has, in various times and ways, ruled that some beliefs are not acceptable alternatives within Christianity. Adherents are, in fact, outsiders to the faith. For example, nearly 100 years ago, in a book entitled Christianity and Liberalism, Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen argued, in an extensive scholarly treatment, that liberal Christianity was not a version of the one, true faith handed down once and for all to the saints. Liberalism was, he argued, a completely different religion from Christianity.

The Liberal Christianity of Machen’s day focused on a social-reform agenda, fueled by feelings and informed by secular thought, barely draped in religious language. The God it preached was not sovereign over creation and providential over the affairs of men; did not really come in the flesh in the person of Jesus Christ, who did not really perform miracles or physically rise from the dead. The Bible was not really the fundamental and decisive revelation of God, nor the final authoritative source for morality, but must be understood according to our evolving scientific knowledge and political agendas.

Today, there is also an effort to update Christianity, to adapt and re-form it according to the spirit of the age. From church pulpits to the Christian blogosphere, from once-reliable Christian publishing houses to the campuses of Christian colleges that are Christian in name only, from beautiful and historic churches decorated with gay pride flags and pastored by ordained ministers who “bless” abortion clinics to the “exvangelicals” who become self-styled spokespersons for “what Jesus would really say and do,” there is, in our day too, a Christianity that is no Christianity at all.

Devoid of the truth claims and moral teachings of historic Christianity, what is today called “progressive Christianity” is not another side of the same coin. It is a different religion founded on a different worldview.

Machen’s crucial insights were presented in a largely academic book written for a largely academic audience. Since the progressive Christianity of our day is far more populist than the liberalism of his, I am pleased that a new book, theologically robust and very accessible, is now available to address the ideas deceiving so many Christians. The book is titled Another Gospel: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity.

Alisa Childers grew up in the church and eventually became a member of the very successful Christian pop group “Zoe Girl.” Despite that pedigree, as she told my colleague Shane Morris on his Upstream podcast, she was completely unprepared when she learned her pastor was a skeptic, and confronted her with questions and counterclaims about the reliability of Scripture, the morality of the atonement, whether God answers prayer, or cares about our sexual choices, or even exists.

Flailing in doubt, Childers went to work to find answers, studying Scripture, church history, great apologists for the Christian faith (past and present), and critiques of the claims of progressivism. In the process, she found that her beliefs had rock-solid foundations, and answers to the toughest questions.

A “progressive Christianity” that denies the divinity of Christ, treats His incarnation and resurrection from the dead as myths, and reimagines human nature away from God’s created design and according to sexual libertinism isn’t just another take on the faith. It’s another gospel entirely.

Childers’ book Another Gospel is an incredibly valuable resource. Every week it seems, I talk with pastors, youth pastors, parents, and grandparents watching the next generation buy into a false gospel and questioning the historic truth claims of Christianity. Using the framework of Childers’ story, Another Gospel provides a thorough, rigorous, and entirely readable take-down of progressive Christianity, and a reliable introduction to the non-negotiables of the Christian faith.

During October, we’ll send you a copy of that book, “Another Gospel,” with your gift of any amount to BreakPoint and the Colson Center. Come to BreakPoint.org to get your copy.

Resources:

Get your copy of Another Gospel

Colson Center | October 2020

Self-constructed, Build-a-Bear, Buffet-Style Christianity Is No Christianity at All

John Stonestreet | Breakpoint | September 14, 2020

Upstream Podcast

Shane Morris | Colson Center | 2020