{"id":1822,"date":"2021-12-06T18:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=1822"},"modified":"2021-12-06T18:55:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T18:55:34","slug":"waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paul warned Timothy, \u201cin the last days there will come times of difficulty\u201d (2 Timothy 3:1). Savage seasons have, in fact, battered Christ\u2019s Church through its history by means of waves of worldly ideologies:<\/p>

  • Sacramentalism \u2013 in which ordinances and rituals were falsely elevated and undermined salvation by grace<\/li>
  • Rationalism \u2013 where scholarship and human reason attempted to dethrone God<\/li>
  • Orthodoxism \u2013 with its dead, cold, indifferent spirituality\u00a0<\/li>
  • Politicism \u2013 which led to a preoccupation with political power and social causes<\/li>
  • Ecumenism \u2013 where a lack of discernment resulted from an obsession with unity at any doctrinal cost<\/li>
  • Experientialism \u2013 that viewed truth as originating in feelings, intuition, and special revelations, relegating Scripture to secondary importance<\/li>
  • Subjectivism \u2013 where psychology captured the church, resulting in a man-centered, needs-based theology\u00a0<\/li>
  • Mysticism \u2013 as people began to seek individual, subjective spiritual experiences apart from the objective truth of God’s Word<\/li>
  • Pragmatism \u2013 where appropriate means of ministry were defined by the \u201ccustomer-parishioner,\u201d and truth was the servant of what worked\u00a0<\/li>
  • Syncretism \u2013 in which evangelicals, intimidated by cultural agendas and eager to find favor with the unsaved world, capitulated to blending Biblical truth with all forms of theological error<\/li><\/ul>

    There is a cumulative effect as these movements increase in frequency and intensity (2 Tim. 3:13). In response to Paul\u2019s exhortation that we have the divinely-empowered weapons to destroy such strongholds (2 Cor. 10:3-5), Guzik explained that wrong thoughts and perceptions, which contradict the true knowledge and nature of God, stubbornly set deep roots in human hearts and minds, influencing adversely an individual\u2019s beliefs and behaviors.\u00a0<\/p>

    Christ\u2019s church currently finds itself besieged by the ideological tidal wave of the Social Justice Movement, having been described as the greatest threat to the church in the last hundred years. Likened to a three-headed dragon, its peril lies in emulating secular culture while undermining Scripture in the areas of race, gender, and sexuality. The comprehensiveness of the movement presents unique challenges to church leadership, as it functions as a worldview, complete with its own soteriology, epistemology, sacred texts, and prophets.\u00a0<\/p>

    Almost a century ago, Machen cautioned regarding the powerful force of modern culture, which is either \u201csubservient to the gospel or the deadliest enemy of the gospel.\u201d He declared that subjugating culture necessitates not mere religious emotion but neglected intellectual labor, stating, \u201cThe Church has turned to easier tasks. And now she is reaping the fruits of her indolence. Now she must battle for her life.”<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Paul warned Timothy, \u201cin the last days there will come times of difficulty\u201d (2 Timothy 3:1). Savage seasons have, in fact, battered Christ\u2019s Church through its history by means of waves of worldly ideologies: Sacramentalism \u2013 in which ordinances and rituals were falsely elevated and undermined salvation by grace Rationalism \u2013 where scholarship and human […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Waves-of-Ideology-600x300.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Waves-of-Ideology-600x300.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}