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Why Progressive Christians Are Ineffective and Unpersuasive
American Thinker ^ | 02/02/2017 | Peter Heck

Posted on 02/02/2017 10:41:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/02/2017 10:41:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Progressive” Christians are just one more voice in the mob demanding larger government and more social services. That’s what they stand for. Turning Christianity into just another social services organization that hands out food to the homeless.


2 posted on 02/02/2017 10:46:06 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: SeekAndFind
"For instance, preaching the words of Scripture when it comes to our nation's policy toward refugees is admirable"

In the context of "refugees" on the other side of the world vis-a-vis government action I'm not sure what scripture you would cite.

3 posted on 02/02/2017 10:48:23 AM PST by circlecity
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To: SeekAndFind

Happy Rock Band, Jesus was a Hippie, Love everyone no matter what, Venus Flytrap Satanic Churches.

Is my name for these fools...


4 posted on 02/02/2017 10:52:07 AM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Progressives are very authoritarian and secular. Big government is their god. It seems that God is secondary for Progressive Christians.


5 posted on 02/02/2017 10:57:03 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Progressive Christians” is an oxymoron... liberals are just morons.


6 posted on 02/02/2017 10:57:53 AM PST by Common Sense 101
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To: GraceG

And don’t forget: “Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus were a homeless family”.


7 posted on 02/02/2017 10:59:27 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Jim Wallis, Rachel Held Evans, Shane Claiborne...


They must have failed. I’ve never heard of them.

Sadly, I’ve heard of Muhamad, though.


8 posted on 02/02/2017 10:59:33 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Progressive Christians do not use vulgar language.

Outside of that, they do not differ in mission from the secular left.


9 posted on 02/02/2017 11:16:35 AM PST by lurk (TEat)
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To: SeekAndFind

“appropriate the language of Scripture”

The felony version of taking the Lord’s name in vain.


10 posted on 02/02/2017 11:29:56 AM PST by fruser1
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And don’t forget: “Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus were a homeless family”.

And “refugees,” at that!

I am always amazed at my friends and acquaintances who seldom (or never) attend church or have actually left the faith entirely, who are always quick to trot out a verse of scripture here or there to further their liberal arguments.


11 posted on 02/02/2017 11:39:52 AM PST by oldplayer
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...that hands out food to the homeless.

'...that hands out food to bums.

12 posted on 02/02/2017 12:04:09 PM PST by onedoug
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To: SeekAndFind; fruser1; onedoug; Common Sense 101; lurk; laplata

Evidently, the object of the Emerging Church and other such movements has now become to have the church’s website added to a person’s favorites on Internet Explorer, along with Oprah, Dr. Phil and PBS. Attending such churches allows the unsaved to establish linkages for cherished secular actions and concepts while sanctifying themselves by including Christianity within their lives.

Yet the church leadership must at no point allow disruption of those linkages, which occurs when congregation members undergo the stress of encountering the Lord Jesus Christ in all His majesty as Job and Moses did in the Old Testament, or as Paul, Peter, James, and John did in the New Testament.


13 posted on 02/02/2017 12:34:52 PM PST by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

Very good points.


14 posted on 02/02/2017 12:38:29 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: elcid1970; oldplayer

I knew of a liberal/progressive who hated the Catholic Church. Someone asked why he hated the Church and he said “Because the Roman Catholics crucified Jesus”. I kid you not.


15 posted on 02/02/2017 12:42:44 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Silly question: What is a “Progressive Christian”??


16 posted on 02/02/2017 12:43:39 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: laplata
I knew of a liberal/progressive who hated the Catholic Church. Someone asked why he hated the Church and he said “Because the Roman Catholics crucified Jesus”. I kid you not.

OBVIOUSLY a product of our public school system.

17 posted on 02/02/2017 12:44:40 PM PST by cloudmountain
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they are no more than Liberals with Labels.


18 posted on 02/02/2017 1:02:29 PM PST by arthurus
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To: laplata

Yes! Jesus was crucified by Roman soldiers carrying rosaries. On orders from the Pope.

;^)


19 posted on 02/02/2017 1:18:08 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Why progressive 'Christians'...

...are most likely unsaved.

They are trusting in their "works", which are abominations -- abortion, sodomite marriage, covetousness as policy, bearing false witness, haters of believers in Christ, vindictive, violent, ...

20 posted on 02/02/2017 3:38:09 PM PST by nonsporting
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