Friday, July 2
It was the best of times...
...it was the worst of times. Liberal Christianity is dead, or at least those places where it continues are dying. Unfortunately for us, that's a significant part of the South American Church.
Liberation theology continues to make itself felt in Latin America, but as an elitest mentality which is stunting the growth of the Church and allowing Protestant sects to make stunning inroads into the continent, where "In thirty years, in some provinces, up to 40 percent of the faithful have left."
The dominant traits of this new Christianity are Pentecostal and Evangelical: a deep personal faith, a demanding and puritanical morality, doctrinal orthodoxy, community ties, a strong spirit of mission, prophecy, healings, and visions.
If we can fall this far in 40 years without God's help, how far can we rise with it... If we can fall this far in 40 years without God's help, how far can we rise with it... If we can fall this far in 40 years without God's help, how far can we rise with it...
Thanks, kind of, to Laudem Gloriae for the link.
...it was the worst of times. Liberal Christianity is dead, or at least those places where it continues are dying. Unfortunately for us, that's a significant part of the South American Church.
Liberation theology continues to make itself felt in Latin America, but as an elitest mentality which is stunting the growth of the Church and allowing Protestant sects to make stunning inroads into the continent, where "In thirty years, in some provinces, up to 40 percent of the faithful have left."
The dominant traits of this new Christianity are Pentecostal and Evangelical: a deep personal faith, a demanding and puritanical morality, doctrinal orthodoxy, community ties, a strong spirit of mission, prophecy, healings, and visions.
If we can fall this far in 40 years without God's help, how far can we rise with it... If we can fall this far in 40 years without God's help, how far can we rise with it... If we can fall this far in 40 years without God's help, how far can we rise with it...
Thanks, kind of, to Laudem Gloriae for the link.
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