The New Evangelicalism Part Two

Jude 11-12 11Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.  12These are blemishes on your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, looking after themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted; Here is a great clip on how this verse translates into today's church. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6I5VSZVqc Yesterday I started a series on the "New Evangelicalism" that seems to be infiltrating the Church.  In furthering these verses in Jude, it talks specifically about leaders who are like hidden reefs below the surface of the water.  I like that word picture "hidden reefs" because it describes an unsuspecting disaster waiting to happen. So how does this new evangelicalism fit this picture?  Simple, it detracts from the mission of the church, while thinking it is doing the mission of the church. Most religious bodies discover only after a disaster that perhaps they were not quite on track with God. Religious belief systems can be used as a source for doing evil.  1. Hitler theologically supported  murdering 6 million Jews, primarily because of the anti-Semitism of Martin Luther 2. Apartheid, in South Africa was supported by the White Church  These are only a few examples of how belief systems can be hidden reefs below the surface.  The "New Evangelicalism" embraces everything in order to establish a relationships regardless of the consequences. New Evangelicals refuse to separate from churches and systems that do not teach the gospel. Instead, they seek to form alliances with false systems in an effort to influence these systems to turn towards a Biblical position.  The problem with this is two-fold:  First, to not separate from false systems is direct disobedience to the Word of God; Second, false teachers and systems influence true believers with false doctrines and ideas enter into and pollute the church. The idea of winning the false teachers is humility gone astray. Can we have a relationship with darkness?  Paul didn't think so, as he states: 2 Corinthians 6:14  14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? It is naive for anyone to think we can convert the Devil to our way of faith, he long ago made his decision to fight God, rather than to serve Him. So, any kind of darkness is an allegiance to that kind of thinking. The New Evangelicalism is an emphasis on a new approach, a way to reconstruct the concept of the church to a world of new ideas and new thinking. Relationships that are formed in the process of doing social justice  and this becomes the format for a new gospel. This is why more evangelicals won't talk about hell, or they will redefine it,  They won't talk about prophecy, because it's too narrow, or they won't talk about judgment, because that is not a God they like.  God is who He is, and He doesn't need us to redefine Him to fit into a politically correct world.  We even see how this New Evangelicalism is now saying Mormons are no longer a cult, and that we should celebrate Ramadan as a form of fitting into the world of the Muslin.   The best way to love your enemies is to present to them the truth of the gospel, that only Jesus can provide an eternal way of salvation. Anything that compromises that message is idolatry and sets itself up before God as an alternative form of His message. Beware. Keeping it honest and truthful...K