As fewer Americans identify themselves with Christianity, research indicates that those who remain Christian are redefining what "Christian" means.
New faith practices that are now in vogue include pursuing spiritual diversity in conversations and relationships; embracing racial diversity and tolerance; valuing interpersonal connections above spiritual education; blending all forms of the arts and novel forms of instruction into religious events; and accepting divergent forms of spiritual community.
"The result is a nouveau form and structure for the Christian faith that will have broad-based consequences on the practice of Christianity for years to come," the latest report stated....
" The article is poorly written. Obviously designed to lament the current conditions, it incorporates some encouraging trends in the negative domain. Example: we are told that we do not possess a coherent biblical world view, and that we are embracing values that are not necessarily based on biblical foundations, yet we are told that we are now adopting values such as goodness, kindness and tolerance, and are embracing racial diversity and tolerance. Is the author attempting to say that traditional biblical foundations and a coherent biblical world view is at enmity with goodness, kindness, tolerance, and racial acceptance? My Bible has always endorsed these virtues! Is the author attempting to say that racial hatred, mean attitudes, and evil is a "coherent biblical world view"? I'm confused. ____
Don't be confused, Tony! They know the Bible has always taught these virtues. They are trying to change the morals of the Bible, putting good for evil and evil for good. Those who do not accept the change are charged with not having those virtues.
Gil Rugh said or, wrote: The urgent business of the Church is to guard the sound words that are entrusted to you. Like a bank you are to preserve the deposit of God's gospel. Teach the Word as God gave it. Don't have anything to do with false teachers. We don't have to be negative, but we do have to be biblical.
The article is poorly written. Obviously designed to lament the current conditions, it incorporates some encouraging trends in the negative domain. Example: we are told that we do not possess a coherent biblical world view, and that we are embracing values that are not necessarily based on biblical foundations, yet we are told that we are now adopting values such as goodness, kindness and tolerance, and are embracing racial diversity and tolerance. Is the author attempting to say that traditional biblical foundations and a coherent biblical world view is at enmity with goodness, kindness, tolerance, and racial acceptance? My Bible has always endorsed these virtues! Is the author attempting to say that racial hatred, mean attitudes, and evil is a "coherent biblical world view"? I'm confused.
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