Every major Christian record label is now owned by a secular media conglomerate such as Warner Brothers, Sony, or EMI [National Review]. Many churches are little better. The passion for popularity and growth can be as corrupting and compromising as the desire for profit. Newsweek declared insightfully: The aim...is to lure baby boomers back to church by welcoming all comers regardless of their beliefs...mainline denominations may be dying because they lost their theological integrity. The only thing worse, perhaps, would be the rise of a new Protestant establishment that succeeds because it never had any. Ronald Potter, a black theology professor, writes, Too many black Christians are suffering from theological and biblical illiteracy because their churches emphasize emotion more than doctrine, leaving them vulnerable to the ideas of Farrakhan....Some black ministers practice a new radicalism, placing racial loyalty above seeking and telling the truth. A secular columnist with no love for Christianity writes derisively, Here are the exact words said to me by the senior minister of a Presbyterian Church of 1,500 members. Just play the game...just say the sweet things they want to hear, dont upset anyone with biblical and religious scholarship. Look at this beautiful church building Ive got, plus all the perks, free golf and country club memberships, big salary. I said to him, Jack, youre pathetic, youre a wimp. Youre the problem.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 02:22:10 +0000
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