Good News All Around
You know—I talk about the dangers of biblical inerrancy.
Yes, many good people are biblical inerrantists. But many good people are very selective about the neighbors they will be good to.
And they support their unkindness to gay people and other minorities with scripture.
For the inerrantist, all scripture is of equal value and authority. No priority is given to the teachings of Jesus Christ.
His message of God’s unconditional love for all people is overruled.
Scripture itself is used to silence Jesus.
But I see signs of hope in the church. Yes, the church is in decline; but conservative, inerrantist Christianity is declining at the fastest rate of all.
“Evangelicals” are down to 14% of the population from a high of 25%.
And they are the oldest group–average age, 56.
That’s what makes the future of the churches who recently broke from United Methodism look uncertain.
They have joined a doomed group. Doomed—because their opposition to gay people and love for Mr. Trump leads to a moral dead end.
It has no future.
And that’s good.
Unkindness needs to die.
The worst thing that could happen is for the far-right church to flourish.
A. W. Tozer said of the racist white church in the 60s, “We do not want revival of this. A revival of the kind of Christianity we know today in America might prove to be a moral tragedy from which we would not recover.”
So, the good news is that hatred and ignorance are becoming harder to sell.
We do need revival.
But only if Jesus is at the heart of it. +++
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