From Christianity Today’s Attack Dogs of Christendom:
“Is this how to bring grace and savor to a crumbling civilization?
The angriest websites are those belonging to small, but disturbingly visible, fundamentalist Protestant groups outraged that fellow Protestants appear to be holding out a welcoming hand to Catholics or Orthodox Christians.”
Apparently Discernment Web Sites are Attack Dogs? You know things are pretty bad in the world of Evangelical Christianity when one of its leading publications doesnt understand why there has been such a growth in discernment web sites in the last five years, its because Evangelical Christianity has went down the tubes!
What I find very disturbing about this article is it not only paints a very false picture of discernment web sites but it lumps them all together as one and the same. And they are not. no doubt the internet has created a medium where if you have an opinion, a computer, an internet connection and a blog, you can pretty much say what you want.
I have said on this website very clearly, that as Christians we all have to be careful what we say and how we say it in this medium, as when there is complete freedom to say what you want you can let your tongue defile you and this will have a very detrimental affect on your relationship with God. But I have not seen this issue on most discernment web sites, where I have seen it is on the web sites and blogs of those who the discernment web sites write about, now isnt that ironic?
Apparently Christianity Today does not see a problem with so-called Christian web sites using profanity, having morally questionable content on their web sites or blogs, and also promoting very anti-Christian ideologies!
Christianity Today would much better serve Evangelical Christianity by writing some hard hitting articles on those types of web sites. Oh but wait a minute, those are the people that are the future target audience for Christianity Today arent they!
The only reason Discernment web sites are now being highlighted in such unflattering and false generalizations is that those people and groups who have been pointed out on discernment web sites for their blatant apostasy are feeling a bit of Biblical conviction. And we all know there are two ways you can react to conviction: Give into the conviction, confess and repent, or refuse to repent and instead turn around and bare your teeth at those admonishing you!
This web site for one gets no enjoyment or satisfaction at having to post articles concerning the increasingly sorry state of Evangelical Christianity today (no pun intended). I would like nothing more than to be able to write about the ever increasing healthier state of Evangelical Christianity today (again, no pun intended) but sadly that is not the case.
What is the case is that in the last ten years the vast majority of Evangelical Christianity has dressed itself up in harlets clothes and joined hands with the unsaved world around it. And anyone who see’s and understands what is happening has a Biblical obligation to stand on the proverbial roof top and shout warnings, and just as the warnings the Old Testament Prophets bellowed out, the warnings today can sometimes be no less harsh!
John Baker
John,
Amen! I am amazed that the folks at CT are more concerned about “tone” than substance. On the other hand, I shouldn’t be surprised as this seems to increasingly be the culture within evangelical churches. As churches increasingly focus on numerical growth at the expense of genuine spiritual growth – and the point of entry becomes wider and wider to accomodate “the seekers” – leadership has increasing lost its desire to maintain the doctrinal standards of the church. As the church continues to lose it’s doctrinal moorings, “group consensus” will increase in importance – and those who point out “issues” will increasingly be vilified as “the problem.”