I see at least 3 foreboding clouds in the sky over Evangelicaldom. Open Theism, which rejects some very basic traditional attributes of God and replaces them with what amounts to a new God who is in process and ever changing; the rejection of the classic doctrine of the hierarchical Trinity, replacing it with an egalitarian Trinity which is “being-in-community, power-in-mutuality and unity-through-difference” and the adoption of the tenets of Unitarianism with the concurrent slide into the old Social Gospel.
Accompanying these ominous clouds is another: a very different social- economic hermeneutic or way of interpreting Scripture which rejects, again, the traditional historical-grammatical approach. This is not to mention a very different way of doing or being “church”. Lots of dark clouds on the horizon. Thunder storms are coming which will bring destruction of the Faith and Practice some of us have know our entire lives. If the Foundations are destroyed what happens to the buildings? That is a current problem with the Jefferson Memorial in DC.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061502436.html?referrer=emThat could be a headline over your Church in the near futureMy wife and I have been reading about the Yellow Fever Epidemic which ravaged Philadelphia in 1793. It took people by surprise. They were not prepared and were in denial at first of its danger. One tenth of the citizens there died horribly. We recently visited a large State Forest in Maryland. Settlers in the 1880s brought garlic mustard plants to that area for spice and medicinal purposes. Those seemingly innocent plants have spread through the Forest, and along with other imported species, are threatening its well-being. Pick your analogy: the above aberrant doctrines are spreading among Evangelicals like the Fever or the garlic mustard. Beware! http://www.mdinvasivesp.org/archived_invaders/archived_invaders_2003_05.html
