Leaders from Evangelical and Progressive parties came together at the “Come Let Us Reason Together” Conference on October 10th to find common ground on divisive issues. I am so glad that liberals and evangelicals are now able to look past the differences that divide and look for ways to get along. There were free T-shirts given out at the conference with the caption, “Plays well with others.” (In the event that you did not read the sarcasm, there were no T-shirts given out.)
What were some of the divisive issues? The article in the Christian Post listed nothing of the Trinity, nothing of Penal Substitution, nothing of the gospel whatsoever. It listed, however, things like abortion, homosexuality, the role of religion in public life, Darfur, and the environment. Does that mean that evangelicals and liberals now agree on theological issues? The purpose of the Conference was to look for ways to work with each other. For the life of me, I cannot think of any way how evangelicals could work with liberals unless the evangelicals have rejected the gospel of Christ as the liberals have. Let me be straight with you. There is no common ground between true Christianity and liberalism, and, sadly, it seems that there is no common ground anymore between true Christianity, and evangelicalism.
I hope and pray that a conference like this is indicative of the way things are going in the Evangelical world. This conference was by no means a step forward in the right direction. It is nothing more than apostacy.
If a Reformed man went to one of these things to protest and proclaim against it, and a Mohammedon suicide bomber showed up as a mediator for agreement of parties, both the liberal/ unbeliever and the Reformer would finally be in agreement, on opposite sides of the expanse between them, mind you. That God is just in the condemnation of the wicked.
Sometime it just takes tragedy to bring people together *sigh*…