Our readings in this series are from the book, The Church Captive. Here is a brief excerpt from page 57:
“Evangelicals had sailed into the winds of the secular and humanistic superstorm, accommodating the faith in two primary ways, and rendering evangelicalism a feckless and fruitless endeavor.
“First, evangelicals accommodated to the world with respect to their view of Scripture: ‘Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth…there has been accommodation on Scripture, so that many who call themselves evangelicals hold a weakened view of the Bible and no longer affirm the truth of all the Bible teaches…’
“Second, ‘there has been accommodation on the issues, with no clear stand being taken even on matters of life and death.’ Or, we might add, justice, sexuality, and culture in general.
“Schaeffer summarized, ‘Thus we must say with tears that it is the evangelical accommodation to the world spirit around us, to the wisdom of this age, which removes the evangelical church from standing against the further breakdown of our culture.’”
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T. M. Moore
