I hear more and more about professing Christians and churches that are letting go of Biblical doctrine in order to be more accommodating and relevant. You will hardly ever hear a sermon any more with the words hell or sin in it.

I wonder that we aren’t letting the culture transform us instead of us transforming them. A good pastor once said, “Don’t let the world teach you theology.”

That’s exactly what so much of the American Church has done. We’ve let culture tell us what to believe on so many issues instead of letting the Bible inform us. The end result is that we look so much like the society we’re called to reach that there’s hardly any point for us to exist. Our message is so watered down and diluted that it hardly has any hope left in it.

But Jesus always told the truth. Yes, He spoke it in love with compassion, but He always told the truth. He also met people were they were, but He didn’t leave them that way. All those prostitutes and tax collectors and adulterers weren’t prostitutes and tax collectors and adulterers after they had encountered Jesus. They were followers of Jesus willing to lay down their lives for Him and for the gospel.

May we never lose the gospel or preach a different gospel than the only one that has ever saved anyone and ever given anyone new hope and new life.