Highway to Hell
June 07, 2006
Over at the consistently foul mental and spiritual commode called Sojourners, one Bill Yaccino pats himself on the back for marrying cohabitating members of no church who consider themselves “spiritual but not religious.” A bunch of mean old pastors had turned this couple down or just put them off with “intrusive questions.” One pastor had even had the gall to require that they “go through a 10-week counseling session.”
Inexplicably, Yaccino concludes “Here was a couple looking for spiritual guidance.”
And was he ever ready to give them that “guidance,” because Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christian had opened Yaccino’s mind, and he decided to quit requiring anything of couples who wanted him to marry them. Everyone “loved” the results” of course. They even “liked the way” Yaccino “lived out” his faith (i.e., no standards, no judgments, giving everyone what they want), and these folks “felt free to question and reconsider their own” faith or non-faith. But that’s not all! “Most importantly,” gushes Yaccino, “for the first time in a dozen years, I felt missional. I felt authentic. I felt empowered to serve these couples without an agenda.”
God forbid a called servant of Christ have an agenda. But that is probably presuming too much. My every intuition is that Wallis, McLaren, and others of that ilk cited in this Sojo article are the confused if not the called servants of Satan.
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