What's the Difference? // Week 7: Progressive Christianity (Part 2) // Pastor Blaine Keene

Fundamental error #1: Progressive Christianity exchanges the authority of the Creator for the created. Fundamental error #2: Progressive Christianity eliminates the need for repentance, reconciliation, and salvation. Fundamental error #3: Progressive Christianity falls prey to the same problems as secular humanism, including logical inconsistency and moral relativism. Fundamental error #4: Progressive Christianity redefines love as acceptance and affirmation. Fundamental error #5: Progressive Christianity exchanges Christ-centered identity for self-centered identity. What we believe matters. Truth can be known because God has revealed the truth in Jesus Christ. "The dominant conclusion among progressive Christians is that love means affirming whatever journey a person wants to be on, such that they don’t feel judged….Whereas Christians with a biblical worldview should understand love to be the act of wanting for others what God wants for them, progressive Christians tend to understand love as the act of wanting for others what they want for themselves." -Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different “Love, I have come to learn, is not God. Flip that. God is love. The God revealed in Jesus Christ is the definition of love. This difference changes everything...The cross is where that strange and holy God most clearly reveals his love...The cross is God’s intimate act of self-giving, his gentle way of critiquing our love of money, sex, self, romance, fame and power. These weaker loves, these idols we raise in our own image, could never compare with his infinitely greater love...It sounds like heresy in our culture, but romantic and sexual love are not the deepest expressions of our humanness. Unconditional love – God’s love- is.” - David Bennett, A War of Loves A Prayer: “Jesus I trust in you as the Son of God, my Savior, and Lord over all creation. I confess and repent of any known sin in my life. I surrender to your love and lordship in my life. I receive your grace to save me and continually transform me as I follow you one step at a time. I rely on your love to empower me to participate in the coming of your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.”