Stay with me here. Right about now I know that these deceptive tactics are probably making your head spin. So I’ll give you a clear example. Popular blogger and member of the Christian Left Rachel Held Evans, illustrated this strategy. While writing her book Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband ‘Master,’ Evans essentially claimed that because it is impossible for women to follow all of the rules pertaining to women recorded in the Bible, then it should follow that Scripture is not an applicable guidebook for Christian women’s daily lives.
Thankfully Kathy Keller, the wife of Pastor Tim Keller, pointed out in a book review published by the Gospel Coalition why Evans’ formula was deceptive. “In making the decision to ignore the tectonic shift that occurred when Jesus came,” Keller wrote, “you have led your readers not into a better understanding of biblical interpretation, but into a worse one. Christians don’t arbitrarily ignore the Levitical code—they see it as wonderfully fulfilled in Jesus.”
“Not my church,” you might be thinking. “We believe in the authority of Scripture.” So says Rachel Held Evans and many other Christian Left leaders shaping young evangelicals’ faith and worldview.
I pray that distorted liberal theology is not permeating within your church. But a warning: Do not look for liberal political slogans or pro-abortion propaganda pinned to the bulletin board. The Christian Left is much more clever and deceptive than a simple Republican vs. Democrat debate.
America’s Founding Father James Madison stated, “I believe there are more instances of abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” Likewise, the Christian Left’s abridgement of the authority of Scripture is a gradual and silent destruction of the Word of God.
At this point you might be wondering how the Christian Left can successfully persuade the millennial generation to buy into its damaged, distorted version of the gospel.
