What's Up With Liberal Christianity? #2

A Liberal Christian is someone who is trying to serve two masters. He is trying to live in two worlds, straddle the fence and receive the consumer benefits of both. The problem is, one can't serve two masters. Jesus said, "No one can serve two masters, you will end up being devoted to one and despise the other." As a human being, who naturally leans toward the flesh side, which side do you think wins when we try to worship both?

The apostle Paul writes that there is this old sinful nature within me that wants to do wrong, and it wins most of the time. He says the only way to keep the sinful nature at bay, is to stay in the Spirit. Because of the sinful nature that is within all of us, the more we are in the world, the more we become like the world, sinful. Our sinful nature is always hostile towards God. If we stay in the Spirit of God, we will do things that are pleasing to the Spirit. (Rom. 8:1-15) The more we are in the world, the more we will be worldly. That is not the goal of a true Christ-follower.

Thomas Merton wrote in the introduction to his The Wisdom of the Desert: "Society...was regarded (by the Desert Fathers) as a shipwreck from which each single individual man had to swim for his life...These were men who believed that to let oneself drift along, passively accepting the tenets and values of what they knew as society, was purely and simply a disaster."


The devil spends all of his time working to separate us from God. The Bible calls separation death. His goal, according to Jesus, is to destroy us, kill us. Jesus said, "You are truly my disciples if you obey my teachings." Jesus is our authority as Christians and this black and white statement by Jesus makes Christian Theology very narrow, although extremely generous due the sacrifice Jesus made to pay our way.

The definition of liberal is: not literal or strict; broadminded; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms; lacking moral restraint.

Liberal, by definition, cannot be used to describe a Christian (disciple of Christ) as defined by Jesus Christ.

I think, if you were to ask most people who call themselves liberal Christians if Jesus was Lord they would most likely say, "Of course, I am a Christian."

And Jesus would ask, "So why do you call me `Lord,' when you won't obey me?" Luke 6:46

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