Neo-Evangelicalism the Movement of Compromise

There is a trend in the church today that I find particularly disturbing, it is this wide spread ecumenical movement. This is the notion that none of our differences matter. As long as we all believe in Jesus everything else should be ignored and we should just live in unity as brothers. This in UN-BIBLICAL, and the effects of such actions are evident in the ever increasing liberalism of our churches.
How many times did my father tell me as a young girl not to be unequally yoked with an unbeliever? We are told this all the time, not to marry someone outside of our faith. My dad called them projects. Someone else I heard called it evangelistic dating. What ends up happening is, instead of the one ox being able to drag the other its way it ends up being held in place or even pulled in another direction. This concept has been all but ignored when it comes to our churches. For some reason our brothers and sisters in Christ have got the idea in their heads that they can accomplish what Luther, Calvin, and many others could not, and that is to change the church from the inside.
I suppose you will ask me now, “well doesn’t the Bible say “the greatest of these is love?” (1Cor 13:13) Yes, it sure does, but what we need to do is take a closer look at the word love. People today have distorted the meaning of the word love. They will label a one night stand “making love” for crying out loud. Love is confused for a feeling that fades instead of an action we are suppose to take. Parents think it is love to let their kids run wild and unaccountable for their actions.
The love in the Bible is agape love which means Godly love. John 13:34 says, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” How does God love us? Is it not as a Father? Proverbs 13:24 says, “He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.” Hebrews 12:6-11 says, “For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”
These verses state very clearly that discipline is a necessary aspect of agape love, even that there can not be love without it, in fact if you refuse to use discipline you go so far as to hate. We all know the seriousness of hate. The Bible says hatred makes you a murderer (1 Jon 3:15) sadly those Christians who attempt to practice church discipline these days are the ones labeled with hate speech. In their attempt to “speak the truth in love” (Eph 4:15) they often lose friends and family and a lot of the time the pressure of this outcome will cause them to bend their stand on the Word of God and keep silent. For those of you out there feeling this pressure I would say let them walk. Don’t compromise the Word of God to keep people around you. All you need is Jesus and the loving thing to do is speak. Proverbs 27:5 says, “Open rebuke is better than secret love” Proverbs 29:5 says, “A man that flattereth his neighbor speadeth a net for his feet,” why is that? Titus 1:13 says, “This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith.” If you deny a person the rebuke they deserve you deny them the opportunity for self-reflection and change.
We are to hold each other accountable and are not to be unequally yoked. For these reasons the ecumenical movement un-Biblical.
This is only the first part of my Bible study on this subject. Romans 16:17 “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.” will be the subject of my next study.