[Nosterrex]

There are two causes to the decline in Liberal mainline Protestant denominations: first, they have abandoned God's Word and replaced it with social activism, and secondly, spirituality is just another name for hedonism. People want Jesus without the Cross, and they would rather be entertained than converted. Many nondenominational churches are fundamentally liberal, but exhibit in a different way. Legalism is the flip side of Liberalism.

[lightman]

People want Jesus without the Cross

In the 1940's theologian H. Richard Niebuhr indicted liberal Protestantism for teaching

"a God without wrath who brings humans without sin into a kingdom without judgment through a Christ without a cross."

That anti-creed ought to be memorized by every orthodox Christian, the better to guard against the seduction of *modern heresies.

*oxymoronic, because most heresies are just 1st and 2nd century lies in contemporary language.