Laying the Axe to the Root of “Progressive” Christianity

By Rev. Lonnie C. Crowe

Matthew 3:10 “And now also, the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bring forth good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.”

What is the root of the tree of “Progressive” Christianity?

Isaiah 29:13 “And Jehovah said, Because this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men.”

The hearts of many today have moved away from Who God says He is and have received the fatalistic viewpoint of man, of ancient Greece, where everything that happened was thought to be fate and that fate was inescapable. If fate is inescapable, it must, therefore, be acceptable. Paul wrote described the resulting consequences.

2 Timothy 3:1-5: “Know this also, that in the last days grievous times will be at hand. For men will be self-lovers, money-lovers, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, HAVING A FORM OF GODLINESS BUT DENYING THE POWER OF IT; even turn away from these.”

The axe that we must lay to the root of is the Word of God.

Hebrews 4:12 “For the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing apart of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

The Word says that the God of the Bible is still the God of today.
Hebrews13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever.” The delivering power of God has not waned. It is eternal. God can and will deliver us from settling for less that what He desires for us.

Psalm 18:2 “Jehovah is my strength, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock; I will trust in Him; He is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.”

Psalm 34:17 “The righteous cry, and Jehovah hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.”

Our God is an awesome God. Our God can and will save, heal and deliver.