One of the frustrating things I see when out sharing the gospel is the amount of people who consider themselves to be Christians, but deny the authority of the bible.  They are everywhere in this town(Colorado Springs) that some people call the Vatican of Christianity.  Even the huge church down the street that we have visited once or twice has Rob Bell’s videos in the bookstore.  This emergent nonsense is everywhere in the Christian community here in town and those who listen to this stuff are totally at odds with the gospel.  When talking to them, they discard the bible entirely and say that all road lead to heaven, God is not a God of judgment, God is love, Christians have a bad history of violence, no one can understand the bible, if Jesus died on the cross then God is a child abuser…….and on and on and on.

Thus the words of H. Richard Hiebuhr ring so true….

A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of Christ without a cross.

A critique of Brian McLaren’s new book (McLaren is one of the Emergent spokesman) ends with this summary…

In McLarenism there is no original sin, no wrath, no hell, no creation-fallredemption,
no definite future, no second coming that I can see, no clear statement on the deity of
Christ, no mention of vicarious substitution or God’s holiness or divine sovereignty, no ethical
demands except as they relate to being kind to others, no God-offendedness, no doctrine of
justification, no unchanging apostolic deposit of truth, no absolute submission to the word of God, nary a mention of faith and worship, no doctrine of regeneration, no evangelistic impulse to save the lost, and nothing about God’s passion for his glory.

I see this all the time.  And those who live out this social gospel agenda use it to promote the liberal mindset in everything including politics.  Now I do see a lot of bible believers using that position to defend their conservative agenda too.   Because of this, I stay far away from political stuff any more.  We are but a “vapor, that exists for a little while and vanishes”, James 4:14.  My goal is to proclaim the gospel and to glorify God. Eternity is going to last for a long time.  Once someone is saved, God will work out the details, so I need to just be faithful in focusing on Him and His glory.