A former theology professor of mine from Carolina Evangelical Divinity School, recently challenged people with the idea that Christianity must remain irrelevant to the world around us if it is to be genuine. Now before you go getting your knickers in a twist, let me explain what he meant. Briefly, he lectured that we Christians ought to always be relevant to God, but that a church's desire to be relevant to the world around us has always caused God's people to ignore his teachings and invent their own doctrines. There are too many examples of that to list.
Every denomination contains many worldly man-made teachings, which seem very relevant to human thinking, but are not what God teaches in the Bible. We must preach Christ and not human ideas. If we do not teach or practice what he taught, then we are worldly; our churches are not relevant to God. Let's remain irrelevant to the world and relevant to Christ.
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