Ten assertions about today’s Christian culture*

1. Today’s Christian Culture lacks a basic appreciation of God’s holiness—that we are to serve Him with reverence and awe—substituting romanticized amicability for Godly fear.
2. Today’s Christian Culture is ashamed of the Word of the Cross, preferring to sensitize “seekers “ on their own terms, swelling the ranks of the deluded with a perverted gospel.
3. Today’s Christian Culture fails to adequately comprehend the saving work of Christ, jettisoning its essential legal-forensic framework to offer a “personal relationship with Jesus.”
4. Today’s Christian Culture defends the notion that a life of principled obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, out of love for Him and gratitude for His saving grace, is optional—not required.
5. Today’s Christian Culture promotes a type of ”spirituality” that is often little more than an emotional, content-void, self-absorbed, mystical flight of presumptuous human imagination.
6. Today’s Christian Culture denies the innate goodness of Creation, forbidding the appropriate use of things God has given us to enjoy freely, legislating a morality that is rooted in cultural taboos.
7. Today’s Christian Culture suffers from last days madness, having been served up a constant stream of “end times” speculations and prophetic scenarios which have never come to pass.
8. Today’s Christian Culture shuns teaching that is careful to expound the God-intended meaning of Scripture, preferring careless sermons and bible expositions that are mostly autobiographical.
9. Today’s Christian Culture enables church fellowships to function as de facto cults: masses of mind-numbed followers led by powerful gifted leaders who control everything.
10. Today’s Christian Culture has nothing meaningful to offer the world, because there’s nothing meaningful to distinguish it from the world, only a culturally irrelevant, compromised, so-called “Christian” witness that has lost its ability to turn the world upside-down.

But if the salt has become tasteless how will it be made salty again?

It is good for nothing any more, except to be thrown out and trampled under foot by men.

the gospel according to Matthew chapter 5, verse 13

* By “Today’s Christian Culture” we mean the vast network of people—ministries, businesses, bookstores, magazines, musicians, TV & radio programs and the like—who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ today. © Ten assertions about today’s Christian culture*