Omission the great Failure of the Church

The most devastating issues in the church are the actions which are omitted (things which are not done. You see in life we often are faced with a choice to act or not act.

The failure to act is often the most devastating issue in the church. You see people in need and no one seems to care. You see many positive works are thrown away in these moments.

You find who truly cares are when the chips are down and you realize how little people care. You see talk is cheap and avoiding action is easy.

But you see it is all so negative to suggest that Christianity is not doing this or that. But when we are forced to act and faced with a choice to act that is when we learn something.

You see most dead religion is dead because it has no desire to act. There is no heat in the religion and when it meets the uncomfortable choice to act it fails.

You see to show up and recite a creed is easy. To pretend to live well is easy. To avoid certain actions is not so hard. But when confronted with the need to actual act and show love false religion almost always falls on its faith.

Many churches are filled with people of no faith. You see they have no desire to act and no desire to effect change.

When the opportunity to make a difference presents itself they always say, "No." You see many will serve on boards and do this or that easy choice but to actually love it is too much.

They can serve and spend time going through motions but to actually love is too much. You see Christianity is a religion which requires love.

Luckily God gives what he requires. When we accept God through faith he gives us the Spirit who breaths love into our lives.

Liberalism a False "Christianity"

This is a much longer post than usual for me, but I feel it is important. If it is to long feel free to skip it.

To me the importance is knowing what liberalism is so if we find ourselves in a church with these beliefs we will realize this church is not base on true Christianity.

What is "Liberalism?" Liberalism is a belief system that is parasitic on traditional Christianity, but is not Christianity.

It tries to pass itself off as Christianity by using the traditional language of the bible, but it is non-salvific and non-redemptive in nature.

Liberalism rejects the inspiration of scripture and thus rejects the bibles claims about itself. It also rejects Jesus' claims about the bible and the early churches' witness the the claims made by the apostles about scripture.

Liberalism rejects prophecy because it rejects inspiration, which is an error on the same grounds.

Liberalism redacts scriptural elements which it does not like. Liberalism thus stands over and not under the teaching of God.

Liberalism desupernaturalizes the world. Often a person is a material object and the spiritual nature of the world as witnessed by the bible is gone.

Liberalism rejects traditional salvation principles. These are the principles laid out in the Gospels and other NT books about how faith in Jesus' work of salvation in the cross alone brings salvation.

Liberalism rejects that the bible has a coherent story leading to the cross. It thus rejects the teaching of Jesus, the bible and the early church.

Liberalism replaces faith with a moralism and is a set of teaching and functions as a social club rather than a place to seek salvation.

Liberalism rejects missions since salvation is no longer a part of their agenda. Again in opposition to the teachings of the religion the pretend to hold.

Liberalism is dishonest in that it seeks unity at all costs even if it bends the truth and the creeds of it's churches.

No church is perfect but if we find ourselves in one with these features we may need to seriously question if the church is truly seeking to be faithful to God.