Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

by Alisa Childers

False definitions of faith that are so often taught are based on a misunderstanding of the difference between unbelief and doubt. They are not the same thing. Unbelief is a decision of the will, but doubt tends to bubble up within the context of faith.

progressive Christianity is not simply a shift in the Christian view of social issues. It’s not simply permission to embrace messiness and authenticity in Christian life. It’s not simply a response to doubt, legalism, abuse, or hypocrisy. It’s an entirely different religion—with another Jesus—and another gospel.

Augustine quipped, “You ought to say plainly that you do not believe the gospel of Christ. For to believe what you please, and not to believe what you please, is to believe yourselves, and not the gospel.”

the easiest way to spot heresy is to remember this: Jesus + anything = a false gospel.

A man who split history in two and challenged every person who would ever live to either call him a liar or worship him as Lord.

The earliest Christians had no possible motivation for making the whole thing up. In fact, they would have had every reason to recant under threat of death and torture. But they didn’t. Because it was all true.

Some imagine that a more loving and less judgmental church would be better positioned to win new adherents. Yet perfect love appeared in history—and he was crucified.”

“This is the end. For me, the beginning of life.”

The last words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer - theologian and anti-Nazi dissident - before his death by hanging in a Nazi concentration camp. A tear-jerker to be sure.