Something I have started to see within professing Christians of whom most are free-will Arminians, is the abundance of worldliness in the gospel and message they bring to the table. The gospel I’m hearing isn’t anything to really consider and think about. “God loves you so repent else you’ll go to Hell, but He really does love you, died for you and doesn’t want you to perish,” what sort of love is that? If God loves me He will save me, and if He doesn’t love me then I don’t really matter in the end. Although it seems bad enough that this sort of thinking has loads of theological issues swept under the rug, evangelicals and even your common church-goers pile on a heaping load of political correctness, reeking with non-confrontational vocabulary. This is what appeals to the world.
“They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.” (1 John 4:5)
In my generation of the world’s nations moving towards unity and world peace, political correctness has become the unwritten moral standard to almost every major nation. Political correctness attempts to establish a vocabulary that does not contain dissenting ideas, differences in morality and especially confrontation. To strongly disagree with someone would be considered a bit rude or “unloving” of you. Even worse, if you dare to call someone wrong it’s as if you spit in their face. The ending result of political correctness would be a population that all thought the same way without asking questions or even fighting for what they believe in.. It is a conforming ideology that is meant to drive civilization to “peace”. This type of thinking is very common within communist countries.
Scary enough, this ideology has entered the visible church. With fatal attempts to become appealing to the world and to be modern and popular, some “Christians” have sacrificed theology, doctrine and truth for a lie. A lie that fits right in with political correctness and ultimately focuses entirely on man and the potential he has to improve himself. No talk of sin, doctrine, theology or even repentance. It’s all focused on helping the world by giving away your shoes and clothes and feeding starving countries. Although there is nothing wrong with those things, the “churches” that claim to be Christian are actually just a do-gooders club, passing around the offering bucket, giving “sermons” on how to be a better you and how to bring others to Christ by showing them all the stuff God has given you for what you’ve done!
“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4
Call me mean-spirited, call me rude or call me hateful, but this type of thinking is an abomination in the eyes of God. At the core of this movement of prosperity, self-help and the anti-confrontational “Christianity”, sits an idol called humanism. How many times have you been talking to someone, whether it be on Facebook, work or even face-to-face and someone corrects you by saying, “Well, I think we should all just stop arguing about these “tier” issues because all that matters is the relationship and love.”? Umm…love who? How do we love God? What if correcting others involves loving others, is it still a “tier” issue? Many times their intentions are not rooted in the Bible, rather in a non-confrontational approach to theology, witnessing and doctrine; a sacrifice of truth for the sake of unity.
I tend to wonder if any of these people have ever read books like Leviticus, Psalms, Exodus, Samuel and Kings. Even if, and that’s a huge if, in some miraculous way they could excuse the Old Testament for it’s “old world ways”, the same type of confrontation and boldness continues in the New Testament! How many times did Jesus talk about Hell? “Well God is love”, yes and God loves righteousness, not wickedness. Aren’t the 3 epistles of John filled with warnings about false teachers? Isn’t Jude entirely devoted for encouragement of waging war against false teachings?
“I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.” Jude 1:3
How does this politically correct Christianity stand in the face of passages such as Romans 8:7, 1 Corinthians 1:18 and the teachings of Jesus on the inability to come to Him? It doesn’t, yet consistency seems to be one of these “tier” issues to the politically correct “church” . I think John made it very clear to us how to discern what is a message of the world and what is the message of God.
“We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.” 1 John 4:6
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