Another Gospel? Quotes

“When I have doubts about my faith, or deep nagging questions that keep me up at night, I don’t have the luxury of finding “my truth” because I am committed to the truth. I want to know what is real. I want my worldview (the lens through which I see the world) to line up with reality. God either exists, or he doesn’t. The Bible is his Word, or it’s not. Jesus was raised from the dead, or he wasn’t. Christianity is true, or it isn’t. There is no “my truth” when it comes to God.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“In the end, I've come to see that hell is not only necessary, it is ultimately loving and just. If someone desires sin and corruption now, what would make me think he would desire to be separated from sin and corruption for eternity? If someone continually chooses to hate God and reject his gift of reconciliation in this life, what would make me think she will desire to be in his Kingdom forever in the next? And here's something to ponder: If someone wants to bring their self-serving sin into heaven, what would it say about God if he allowed it in?”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“Like wheat and tares, true ideas and false ideas have grown together throughout church history, and it’s up to faithful Christians to be watchful and diligent to compare every idea with the Word of God and see if it lines up. As my misgivings about the class at church grew, I realized that my differences with the progressives were much more substantial than I had realized at first—and that Christians have been fighting these battles for two thousand years.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“Unbelief is a decision of the will, but doubt tends to bubble up within the context of faith.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“Many Christians recognize the brokenness of our world—racism, poverty, and exploitation—and rightly want to do something about it. Contemporary critical theory can be an attractive way of looking at the world because it may seem like a loving and others-centered approach. Don’t we want to free the downtrodden? Isn’t that what Jesus came to do? But the problem with critical theory is that it isn’t just a set of ideas that influences how someone thinks about oppression. It functions as a worldview, a way of seeing the world that answers questions like Who are we? Why are we here? What is wrong with the world? How can this problem be fixed? What is the meaning of life? When people adopt the tenets of critical theory, their answers to these questions are filtered through that lens. It’s no wonder, then, that critical theory stands in contradiction to Christianity at many points.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“By far the most common differences simply show us that scribes in the ancient world could spell no better than most people can today”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“But I know this: The promises of progressive Christianity offered me nothing through this trial. They offered my sister nothing. How could a weak view of God’s Word, a disdain for the Cross, and a relativistic approach to truth bring my family any peace in this kind of adversity? In that hospital room, “my truth” was darkness. But “the truth” was true whether I felt it or not. God was there. God is sovereign. He is good and trustworthy.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“I don’t have a pat answer to the problem of evil. But I know this: The promises of progressive Christianity offered me nothing through this trial. They offered my sister nothing. How could a weak view of God’s Word, a disdain for the Cross, and a relativistic approach to truth bring my family any peace in this kind of adversity? In that hospital room, “my truth” was darkness. But “the truth” was true whether I felt it or not. God was there. God is sovereign. He is good and trustworthy. I’ve tasted and seen. My heart is resolute, echoing the sentiments of Peter, who answered Jesus after many had walked away from him, “To whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68).”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“mean, Jesus never asked anyone to believe anything as a propositional truth about God, or heaven, or whatever. Jesus called people to a way of life. He said: “Follow me, be my disciples.” And it was to a way of life, a way of being in the world. That”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“holds for their lives?”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“It was, “God commanded.” Later in Matthew 22:31, he quoted Exodus 3:6, saying, “Have you not read what was said to you by God . . .” (emphasis mine). In Mark 7:8-13, he criticized the Pharisees for leaving “the commandment of God” and adding their own traditions to Scripture. He told them that they “void the word of God by [their] tradition” (emphasis mine).”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity

“I would later learn that this dismantling of doctrinal tenets—where all the beliefs someone was raised with and had never questioned are systematically pulled apart—is something progressive Christians call deconstruction.”
― Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?: A Lifelong Christian Seeks Truth in Response to Progressive Christianity