“Basham’s book has blown the whistle – not for progressives in mainline churches waving trans flags – but for traditional evangelicals discovering they’ve been the frogs in progressive evangelicalism’s slow boil. These churchgoers thought their leaders were stomping on the cultural brakes as the country careened towards the socialist cliff, but now see that not only are many leaders not braking, they are actually stepping on the gas.”
(David Morrill) In the political arena, tools for exploitation include divisive identity politics, class envy, hyperbolic scare tactics, and good old-fashioned character assassination. Leftist evangelicals are willing to use the same tactics, but they usually get the ball rolling with scripture twisting and Jesus-shaming emotional subjectivism. These uniquely effective tools for manipulating undiscerning believers often do the trick and avoid the need to resort to the more obvious political tools.
Yet evangelicals are a stubborn bunch. The possibility that regular churchgoers – rather than be shamed into voting in opposition to their values – might instead tie their evangelical betters to the leftism they’ve long smuggled into the church is a red alert, four-alarm fire that must be put out. Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale, a book that is shooting up bestseller lists, has conducted a no-knock raid and set a fire in the left’s church kitchen, threatening to expose the secret recipes, identify by name the Big Eva sous-chefs, and cause pew-sitters to leap out of the pot before it reaches boil.
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 the people mentioned in the article.
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