THE CHURCH - Progressive theology is a loser!

HT: Joi @ Classical Education

American Spectator's Hunter Baker hits the one-penny nail squarely on its head and drives it to its mark in his article "A Church, Not a Focus Group." Baker takes to task the MSM's belief that progressive equals best while conservative equals worst.

Citing the clamor for a progressive pope to replace the recently departed conservative one, the author points out the failure of progressive theology by rehearsing the reason for the decline of mainline denominations in the USA ... the momentary elation of change and the transitory boredom of status quo.

I agree with Joi, best and most focused quote is ...

The question for the accommodating churches becomes how long the thrill of breaking down a major [biblical] taboo can sustain an enterprise sitting on a limb cut from its tree?

That creates quite a image doesn't it?

As the Spectator rightly points out, polls undermine truth; but the MSM insists all cultural questions can be answered by a poll or a focus group. Well, the highways of life are littered with the carcasses of those who've followed that precept to its logical conclusion. Poll questions are inherently tainted no matter who does the poll and the American public has been historically consistent in their inability to read with understanding, even on a second or third reading.

Another reason polls are untrustworthy is the polling local; pollsters attempt to foist off polls taken in "blue state" suburban-America as reflective of "red state" grass roots-America. Not!

The author of the Spectator piece does an excellent job of logically justifying the need for more conservatism in the modern church rather than less. Baker (who sounds like he is a Roman Catholic) is a Ph.D. candidate at Baylor University.

Other posts on Church Growth here and here, or Church Decay here, here, here, and here.