POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part VI: What Are We Saved To? Kevin Simington There is a new gospel in town. It has arrived slowly, over a period of decades. Superficially, it is clothed in similar verbal apparel to the old gospel. To the unthinking observer, it looks and sounds like the gospel of the Bible, …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part V: How Are We Saved? Kevin Simington So far in this series, we have seen that the post-modern “pop gospel” differs from the biblical gospel in the way it offers alternate answers to the questions, “What is our intrinsic worth?” and “What are we saved from?” A third question that …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part IV: What Are We Really Saved From? Kevin Simington In Part III of “Pop Goes The Gospel”, I described the pop gospel’s appallingly superficial response to the question, “What does Jesus save us from?”. It is a response rooted in pop psychology and crafted to dress the gospel in language …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part III: What Are We Saved From? Kevin Simington In Part II of “Pop Goes The Gospel”, I described the pop gospel’s slippery-tongued lie that we are all “awesome” (of great worth); a blatant appeal to our vanity in direct contradiction to the Bible’s condemnation of us, in our natural state, …
POP GOES THE GOSPEL Part II: What Is Our Intrinsic Worth? Kevin Simington In Part 1 of “Pop Goes The Gospel”, I described the development of the “pop gospel” – a sugar-coated gospel that avoids the unpleasant themes of sin, judgment, hell and the call to repentance, in favour of a positive message that appeals …
THE IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING WATCH Kevin Simington Next week I am commencing a series entitled, “Pop Goes The Gospel”, which deals with the post-modern repackaging of the gospel and its pervasive influence within Christianity. I am conscious, however, that pointing out error and challenging the status quo is not viewed very positively within the modern …
LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY AND THE BIBLE Kevin Simington Liberalism within Christianity is not a political alignment, but a theological distinction. It refers to the increasingly prevalent view that the Bible is not completely inspired and inerrant, and that its precepts are not timelessly applicable. While it has always been fashionable for sceptics and atheists to ring …
Holy Bible, Wholly True In recent weeks I have had several conversations with Christians who admitted that they voted “Yes” in the recent Australian plebiscite on same sex marriage. When I asked them how they came to that decision, they said things like, “I can’t really see anything wrong with allowing homosexuals to be happy …