martin luther’s biblical “discoveries.” Right. And Al Gore invented the internet.
He stated it was ‘mainline Protestants’ which tend to be the more liberal churches (Episcopal, ELCA, Methodists).
It is NOT true of Evangelical churches. IMO, what people are tired of is the ‘frozen chosen’ churches, because most Evangelical churches and Charismatic churches are growing from among these groups in great numbers. They don’t have the hierarchy but stand firm on moral ground. IMO, it is that that makes them grow. People are tired of churches who are lax or ambivalent on moral standards.
Protestants continue to swim around in Laodicean tap water and are in danger of circling the drain as they are afraid to espouse standards even within their own congregations.
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That is an untrue statement regarding ALL (or even most) Protestant churches. There are some who have moved to the left and behave this way, but not all Protestants at all.
I quit reading after what you posted because you are pimping your blog and this comes across as a Catholic hit piece on Protestants and I don’t support things that divide the Body of Christ.
This article gets several things wrong. Santorum didn’t attack Protestantism. He lamented that SOME Protestants are no longer really Christians.
In particular, he said “Mainline Protestants,” the accepted term for the more liberal, fashionable, upper-class churches, of which the Episcopal Church is the best known.
And it’s true. I was born and bred Episcopalian, before I became a Catholic, and I take no pleasure in seeing how that communion has degenerated over the years.
It’s noticeable that Southern Evangelicals have had no problems voting for Rick, after he said that. They understand what the problem is, too. That, in spite of the fact that the mainstream press has distorted and demonized what Rick actually said. He was not attacking Protestantism, but the betrayal of all that was good in Protestantism. But writers for papers like the NY Times wouldn’t understand what Christianity is really about if you hit them over the head with it. (That’s a metaphor, by the way!)
If Protestantism is, as Santorum suggests, on life support, then it desperately needs revival as a belief system that recognizes the value of the unfiltered grace of God. Protestantism, indeed Christianity in general, is here to tell the world that there is something more than what we see around us and to point to transcendent truths. If the American church wants to really reach its Divine potential, it needs to elevate humanity, not by confirming itself to the secular society or forcing secular society conform to its religion, but by pointing the world to a better alternative.
If the faith community can truly embrace this calling, and it is a calling, not a prodding, it will achieve the transformation that it seeks to achieve in the hearts of Americans and people around the world.
Actually, we’ve all been called out of the ‘churches’ because they all are apostate and decadent now, especially the large Nico Laitan ones like the catholic, orthodox, and episcopal.