AIDS: Acquired Ignorance of the Doctrines of Scripture
(Don & Joy Veinot, Dying of AIDS – Midwest Christian Outreach) In our 2010 article, Christian Scandal (the good kind) Jonathan Miles rightly pointed out that:
“… distinctly Christian stumbling blocks have been questioned by the Culture Driven Church. Grace and Hell have long been disparaged. Grace has either been watered down into universal salvation or thickened with concepts of good works. Hell has been disparaged by even venerable dons of theology. Evangelism has been abandoned in favor of a social gospel and Brian McClaren’s religious pluralism. And sexual ethics have been simply and quietly ignored in favor of discreet trysts or transformed into political debates. All of this in an effort to remove the skandalons [snares] that offend.”
Since those days, the Culture-Driven Emerging Church has evolved into Progressive Christianity. Nothing happens in a vacuum. We got to this point through largely unnoticed changes in the past, which of course brings us to where we are today, in both culture and the church. It happened as a result of something we dubbed “spiritual AIDS,” the Acquired Ignorance of the Doctrines of Scripture, about 25 years ago. A physical analogy with the AIDS epidemic as it stood in the late 1990s may be helpful.
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Who are the Emergent Church leaders? Where are they now? by Marsha West
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 people and organizations mentioned in the article.