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Megan Basham
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Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
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Beside Every Successful Man: A Woman's Guide to Having It All
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2008
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8 editions
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“First Lawâ€� coined by British political pundit John O’Sullivan: “All organizations that are not explicitly right-wing will over time become left-wing.â€� Hebrews 2:1 warns of a similar tendency when it comes to theological matters: “Therefore, we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.â€� Nothing in the world comes so naturally to a Christian as putting away his oars of resistance and floating off on the cultural tides. This is especially true when you know that the firm ground of Scripture you’re standing on is increasingly becoming a deserted island.”
― Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
― Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
“It has become rare in mainstream evangelicalism to hear in-depth theological teaching. Megachurch pastors of Greear’s variety wear not suits and ties, but checked sport shirts, the sleeves rolled up at the wrist, with maybe a fleece Patagonia vest in the fall. Their sermon style tends to be similarly informal, rarely taxing attendeesâ€� attention by delving into theological terms like soteriology or hypostatic. Yet, in recent years, a new form of spiritual jargon—words like hegemony and cultural representation—has peppered their preaching.”
― Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
― Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
“Even if one were to agree with progressive Christians that racial inequities should be the Church’s greatest concern, no other race-based injustice can compare to what is being done under the auspices of “reproductive rights,â€� something Professor Carl Trueman ably highlighted in First Things. “Police actions in 2018 accounted for the deaths of fewer than three hundred African Americans, while in the same year abortions of African-American babies accounted for more than 117,000 of the same,â€� he pointed out. “One would think this extreme difference (390 to one) would make abortion the centerpiece of Christian critiques of racism.â€�67 The only reason it wouldn’t is if those drawing such equivalencies do not, deep down, see those 117,000 babies as equally human as the 300 adults. Prior, French, Keller, and both Moores have taken to the pages of the most elite media outlets in the world to incessantly disparage average Christians who felt it was worth voting for Donald Trump for a chance to dismantle the most wicked practice this nation has ever known. Let’s be clear, no one cast a ballot for Trump because he committed adultery or because he bragged in 2005 about grabbing women’s private parts. Nor was the legal protection of adultery or lechery a feature of the Trump campaign’s platform. In contrast, Clinton and Biden did promise voters that electing them would allow the butchery to continue. They did make it a part of their platforms, and a significant number of voters cast ballots for them based on those promises. Given this, which vote is more morally compromising for the Christian—the one that places power in the hands of those who promise to allow the innocent to be put to death or the one that vests power in those who promise to make a way to rescue the innocent? Which group of Christians do these celebrated evangelical leaders accuse of defaming the name of Christ with an untoward interest in political power, and which do they excuse and even promote?”
― Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
― Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda
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