Posted on 02/08/2006 8:22:53 PM PST by buckeyesrule
This sermon was preached yesterday by the Rev. Terry Specht at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church.
....Sometime in the 1950s, Christians in America lost their nerve. Gradually a consensus developed that we needed a softer, gentler Christianity. Somehow, we needed to take the edge off the words of this man, Jesus. We thought that if we just repackaged Him without the demands of the Gospel; if we stripped the cross from Christianity, then maybe more people would join the church.
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I always wondered who coined that term.
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