(Amy Spreeman – Berean Research) If you’ve been a Christian for more than a decade, you’ve probably noticed how quickly things have changed in the Church. Ideas that once would have been clearly rejected as unbiblical are now promoted from pulpits, podcasts, and conference stages.
As I prepare to write the next series of articles examining the dangers of Progressive Christianity and its growing influence in the Church, I’m amazed (and grieved) by how much our world — and the visible Church — has shapeshifted in just the past several years. When I first started writing articles in 2010 about the different movements impacting Christians, we were watching the final throes of the Emergent Church movement, with its big tent theology and lack of clear definitions and boundaries. Leaders like Brian McLaren, Jim Wallis, and Shane Claiborne were that generation’s TED-Talk-style performers, always offering something “new” and out-of-the-box. Their attack on the authority and sufficiency of Scripture shipwrecked the faith of many.
While the Emergents have since faded away, other progressives — shaped by a culture that celebrates “my truth” and “your truth” — are leading many churches and ministries to quietly surrender the one unchanging Truth. Progressive theology has declared war on the plain meaning of Scripture, and the casualties are souls drifting away from the Gospel.
I’ve watched this shift up close. Raised in a progressive-leaning environment myself, I now see how dangerous the idea is that the Bible somehow needs updating for modern ears. Progressive “Christianity” isn’t a harmless update to the faith — it’s a reinterpretation that sounds compassionate while quietly emptying the cross of its power. Over the years at Berean Research, I’ve watched these same arguments appear again and again. They’re always dressed up as compassion, but they always lead people further away from the authority of Scripture.
Research
Progressive “Christianity” – Berean Research
Emergent Church – Christian Research Network
CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as those mentioned in the article.