Saturday, December 09, 2006

The Credibility Question

By Dr. Albert Mohler

From the beginning, liberal theology has been a series of rescue attempts on the part of theologians who have sought to rescue the church from its credibility crisis in the eyes of the modern academy and culture. That project is a denial of the faith and a route to disaster. If you sincerely believe that Christianity must change its position on homosexuality, you will hardly be able to stop there.

The credibility crisis on the issue on homosexuality that really matters is the loss of credibility suffered by the church when it fails to tell the truth with love, recoils from homosexuals instead of reaching out with God's love, and buries its head in the sand. This is the credibility crisis we must quickly address and where the Gospel is truly at stake. (more)