Post by Murph on Feb 24, 2024 8:08:19 GMT -6
Progressive Christianity’s Half-Jesus is No Jesus at All
“On the Cross, Jesus sided with the marginalized, oppressed and despised. The resurrection was God’s affirmation of that choice and, in his ‘coming out’ of the tomb, Jesus offered hope, possibility, love and welcome.”
So said Professor Susan Shaw in a lecture last year to homosexual and transgender “welcoming and affirming” Baptist churches. So say a thousand others I’ve seen, taking pieces of truth about Jesus and trying to mold the whole of Him out of it. “Jesus’ mission was all about love, especially for the lesser among us. If He were alive today He would open His arms to everyone.” You have never met anyone who was so insistent on doing things his own way, while also being known for having great love for others.
That’s the kind of distorted version you get from taking part of the truth about Jesus and treating it as the whole truth about Him. The “affirming” churches aren’t the first to do it. Plenty of people in the Gospels thought they’d seen all they needed of Jesus when they’d only seen part of Him. It wasn’t just His enemies. His friends, His disciples, even His family made the mistake.
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