The Four Main Challenges to the Evangelical Church
It is my opinion that there are four main challenges to the modern evangelical church. The first and most important is the loss of the doctrine of Sola Scriptura. Any time Christians seek the source or evaluation of truth in any other place than the self-authenticating Bible, error is soon to follow. This is true of Christians, who though are sincere, claim special revelation from God, to those who use anything other than the Scripture itself as their interpretive principle, i.e. exegesis.
The second error follows quickly on the heals of the loss of Sola Scriptura, and that is the blasphemous practice of incorporating the local church into the State. I am shocked that this sin is not on the top of the list of every popular and influential pastor in the United States of America. I have raised this issue with many intelligent and godly pastors only to be ignored or casually dismissed. The evangelical church will remain in bondage and under the judgment of God until this sin is repented of and corrected.
The third challenge is the adoption of many evangelical churches of worldly techniques and methods to attract and grow their church. This is the business-model, seeker-friendly, program-centered church. The cool pastor giving a Ted-talk like motivational sermon preceded by theologically shallow, but entertaining and emotionally stimulating mini rock concert, along with the presentation of easy-peasy churchianity that brings in the crowds but makes few cross-bearing and long-suffering disciples of Jesus Christ is destroying the evangelical church, while supposedly growing it.
The last challenge flows from the previous three and is perhaps the culmination of all that is wrong with the modern evangelical church; the infiltration of the church by cultural Marxism through critical race theory and the acceptance of sodomites and lesbians into the church without repentance. This insidious gnostic and paracytic cult infected liberal mainline churches long ago, but has recently entered the evangelical church through Black Lives Matter and lgbtq.
Acceptance of either or both is, as Michael O’Fallon has so aptly articulated, a Trojan horse that contains the enemy that will entirely destroy evangelical Christianity as we know it. This is not necessarily a bad thing as Christ will continue to cleanse His Bride until He comes again.
The hour is late. If it was not for the words of Christ that the gates of hell will not prevail against His holy Church, I would be without hope, but because He spoke those words, I know the forces of darkness will not win. This, however, does not mean the God is not going to begin judgment with His house, and that the Bride will be spared the coming persecution that serves to cleanse a fat, lazy, and sinful evangelical church.
