Paved with (Progressive) Good intentions…
As some of you know, our church was affiliated with the RCA denomination until we voted to join the Alliance of Reformed Churches a few years ago, as we could no longer stomach the apostasy rampant in the RCA.
With the conclusion of last week’s RCA General Synod (from which I was blessedly absent, but whose reverberations of hopelessness live in my sense memory), it occurred to me that it is time for a palate cleansing post, in lieu of the RCA’s capture by “Progressive Christians”:
“Progressive Christian” leaders (in both the Church and the Academy) take aspects of God, and His Word, that resonate with them today (as opposed to yesterday, or tomorrow), and duct tape them to their progressive ideology (whose evolving and shifting tenets are always to be followed unquestioningly in the moment).
There is no ultimate hope. No ultimate foundation. No full and final revelation (because the Progressive mind has to always evolve, duh - which itself is a verity that is circular but they can't be bothered with such things). The Progressives love the Bible, except when they don't. The Progressives use the Bible, except when they don't. The Progressives love God, except when they don't (because God has not evolved to their level yet).
The “Progressive Christian” leaders preach and pontificate with a veneer of "love" and "compassion." But that veneer is carefully circumscribed and defined by modern liberal tenets, not defined in light of God and His Word.
We would do well to remember that every damnable error or heresy or sin from Adam & Eve onward began with an aim, a motivation, or an ostensible rationale that was an expressed good. Very few humans have ever said: "I'm going to do something, and/or encourage others to do something, that is by its very nature horrible, wrong, and irredeemable. And the reason I’m going to do it, is because it is horrible, wrong, and irredeemable.” From gang initiations to gas chambers, from terrorists to traffickers, humankind has always maintained that some sort of virtue or perceived good was involved in their aims, however demented. So I am not interested in the good intentions of Progressive Christians who - with regard to those under their awful "care" - effectively pour WD40 on a slip-n-slide to damnation.
Wolves can hide behind plaintive cries for the poor and downtrodden. But the question is not whether something is "loving" or "welcoming" in the abstract. The question is whether the "love" or "welcome" has a truthful and transcendent foundation.
“Progressive Christian” leaders fill me with righteous anger, and with a concomitant compassion for the souls of their congregants and pupils, who are denied the life and hope of the tried and true and eternal Christian gospel. A prophetic "woe" is certainly warranted toward those “Progressive Christian” leaders who take handfuls of shifting sand and throw it in the eyes of the unwitting, while boldly proclaiming - even with crocodile tears - "Behold! This week's truth!"
Let God be true and every man a liar. And “Christian Progressives,” whether in the professorate or in the pulpit, have been doing their level best to live into the latter.
- Pastor Ben Keller
