Most people do not delve deeply into the events of the world. They are too busy.
Or they just trust select sources to give them what the truth is. To tell them what is happening.
And what to think.
Others delve more deeply. They may care more and want to be sure of what is true.
Yet, they make the same mistakes as the first group. They trust a limited group of sources to tell them what is happening.
And what to believe.
It used to be, if someone was concerned about a problem in the church, that the leaders or even the pastor would not hesitate to find out what was on a person’s heart.
They would want to know what the problem was. To discuss it and to make any changes in the church that might need to be made.
Way back when.
Over the years, I’ve had many personal meetings with pastors and church leaders about doctrine, church practice, etc. Because they were actually interested in my concerns. They were actually more focused on truth than they were about their own schedules or about the programs of their church.
But not so much anymore.
You know how you can hear something discussed a thousand times until one day the reality of what is going on finally dawns on you?
I was listening to a sermon the other day where, as always seems to be the case, “love” was lifted up as the standard of proper Christian living. Meaning, that being loving, kind, humble, gentle, non-critical, non-judgmental, non-divisive, etc., etc. is what a Christian should be.
Above all else.
As opposed to those believers who dare to criticize or question what a minister or ministry says or does. As opposed to those “critical” Christians who just doesn’t keep quiet and get to work.
The Christians who won’t sit, lie down, and roll over like good little believers.
Frankly, I think that most churches, regardless of the church, are staffed with leadership that don’t truly understand the need for the application of the Cross in their own live
Even while those same leaders preach of the Cross, taking up your Cross, bearing your own Cross, and a hundred other biblical phrases dealing with the Cross, they fail to understand what that truly means.
I know this is true.
Because, right now, I am preaching (in my own head) to a 19-year-old young man who was in desperate need of this information. Who didn’t believe he needed to hear it.
That young man was me.
Bible churches having been changing their attitude toward truth, doctrine, and the defense of the faith.
That is not a charge that is easy for me to make. Believe it or not, I tend to resist such ideas.
I want to think the best thoughts about those who are in leadership. Not only of local church leadership, but also of those in our Christian universities and seminaries.
To give leaders and teachers the benefit of the doubt.
Unfortunately, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that our churches are consistently, though subtly, switching from proclaiming truth as their first priority to elevating experience, good works, and outward unity as their highest priority.
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25)
Our Postmodern, Post-Christian society thinks that they are unique, intellectual, and thoughtful. And that they are loving and tolerant of all things.
Except, of course, when it comes to having any tolerance for biblical faithfulness.
But, in reality, Postmodernism is simply an ancient idea packaged for consumption by a new generation of wicked men and women.
It seems that every once in a while, the church decides to re-invent itself. To shift its focus or try to re-state, re-organize, or just try to do a makeover in order to appear more acceptable, more relevant, and more hip to the surrounding culture.
The reason for this is often blamed on the church’s ineffectual ministry to the surrounding world. Therefore, there is no end to all the books and ministries seeking to lead the church down a new path to become more effective or more “contextual”.
And, of course, there is no end to all the rhetoric telling us how to do this. How we must become a “New Kind of Christian”. Or even how “Everything must change”!
And always, without fail, the one thing that is constantly emphasized in all of these “methods” is how we must become more “loving”.
Always, always, “love” is lifted up as the great answer.
In effect, “love” has become the New Idol of this church age.
A very interesting thing about the Progressive culture is their desire to destroy anything they don’t like.
They hide behind a hypocritical morality waged against those Christians or Conservatives they regard as haters, bigots, homophobes, Nazis, Fascists, etc.
But the reality is that they are simply terrified of spiritual truth.
And are desperately trying to silence any proclamation of the gospel of Christ. And any semblance of basic, biblical morality.
Because they are convicted by their own sins.
And they’re afraid that the Judgment of God might just be real.
And that they will stand before God without any hope.
A common argument often used against biblically faithful Christians is that they are too religious.
And that religion just divides people.
And that religion is not based on real life or on a real relationship with God.
And that one needs to be more secular, more focused on the real world, and more focused on loving one another.
As opposed to insisting that people all believe the correct doctrines and theology. Which, again they say, only divides people.
Eternal Approach 
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