For years now there's been plenty of moaning and groaning among conservative evangelicals about progressive churches and their approach to faith.
Entire YouTube channels are devoted to calling out the unscriptural practices and teachings of liberal Christians. The apostasy of such churches is an assumed fact.
And, yes, much of what's going on in these congregations is pretty darn outrageous.
But lately I have been wondering how much blame conservatives themselves should assume for the growth of progressive Christianity.
How much of present day liberal church lunacy is a reaction against the conservative propensity for a more Calvinist-style Angry God and a religion abounding in judgment but lacking both depth and emotion?
(Not to mention Scriptural backing.)
Evangelicals are used to pointing at others and crying "That's unscriptural!"
But it might be time for us to go back to the Book ourselves and study it afresh.
Seems to me there's a pretty big log in the Evangelical eye that needs removing.
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