In this last post on the matter of “fake news” and its
comparison to “fake theology” (Part 1, Part 2), I would like for us to consider
what impact that “fake theology” ultimately has on a church. When Murray takes an interlude in one of his
chapters about truth, he wrote that truth has a tendency to create trouble. The trouble the comes with biblical truth is
that it demands something of every person—a demand to yield desires and their
desired identity to what God is calling for.
In fact, John captured the words of Jesus when he said, “everyone who is
of the truth listens to my voice” (John 18:37).
“Fake theology” will never make such a vigilant, sobering call because
it CAN’T!!!! “Fake theology” is literally the opposite
of what God has spoken and even demanded of this fallen world of mankind. The curse of sin is death and yet “fake
theology” wouldn’t dare to tell anyone that even if they were to ask the
question as to what the penalty of death really was. “Fake theology” leaves a lot of casualties
and spiritual fatalities in its wake.
What I have been keenly aware of is the fact that for the most part, the
results of “fake theology” flies under the radar for several years before its
effects are seen in the veering away from biblical truth and standards that
have been forsaken. The Emerging Church (Part 2) seems so far removed from us at this point and some may not even remember the
foothold it gained in a group of pastors not too much younger than I am more
than a decade ago. I had some
acquaintances who bought into it completely and their lives and ministries are
either entirely shipwrecked or they have become enemies of the cross as Paul
described them. But the real problem is
the “fake theology” that the EC managed to weave into the church that has now become
very dominant in the thoughts of far too many Millennials. The all-inclusiveness they were pushing in
areas of doctrine, questioning the authority/inerrancy of Scripture, “lifestyle”
differences, and social action has created so much chaos in the minds of people
that biblical truth bounces off of their hardened hearts as they cry out for
their particular social or political cause.
