We Evangelical Christians will be well served if we recognize political progressivism is the new religion.
Progressivism has its own creeds, its own dogma and its own sacraments. Anybody who disagrees is hopelessly lost and deserving of judgment. Progressivism evangelizes with the same undisciplined passion and vitriol we have used for decades.
Ironically, progressives have become everything they hated about us.
How does it make us feel? Open and curious about their beliefs? Hardly! Of course, that should be an important lesson for us in our own desire to faithfully follow Christ.
We might want to strip away the superfluous dogma (remember dancing and movies?) and distill our message down to the Apostle Paul's guidance in Romans 10..."lf you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved". The social practices we condemn are not a function of salvation. They are a function of the Holy Spirit teaching maturity and joy.
Don't do the Holy Spirit's job...He's capable. Just be prepared to give a reason for the hope that is in you (1 Peter 3:15). And...by all means..."speak this truth in love because that is how Christ did it" (Eph 4:15)
Live boldly out there today...
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