Mrs. B-N
Puritan Board Freshman
My husband and I recently went down the rabbit hole of leftism-in-evangelicalism after the church we are attending played TGC's Night of Lament earlier this summer. I know, I know. Where have we been, right? However, I have been shocked by what I have found in my research following that airing. And also very discouraged. I never thought that we would have to ask the questions we asked our pastors at our first membership meeting. Or the answers we got. My first question was about their opinion of pastors promoting voting for pro- abortion candidates in any way? I asked this as a moral question, not a political one. I see a crisis of leadership in the evangelical church at large right now as demonstrated by the going-ons that currently are promoting the Marxist social "gospel" in the guise of "social" justice. I believe that part of the strategy to get Christians to start voting more left leaning is to first break down the barrier that any Bible believing Christian has to promoting and supporting government sanctioned murder in the form of abortion. TGC and their crowd (the reformed lite, i call them) are working hard at this. You don't have to look far. My pastor's response was that his problem was that pastors are making voting recommendations at all, not necessarily with what this one was recommending and that he personally would never say he would "never" vote prochoice. Our other pastor said something to the effect that abortion is "like slavery" and that we do have prochoice members in our church. Whatever that means. He also said that they had people leave because they didn't talk about global warming enough and we need to stick to the Gospel. As if being prolife and leading and teaching your church to be, as well, is equivalent to global warming. I think my husband and I were both so flabbergasted and surprised by their responses that we didn't press for the clarity we were seeking and didn't realize how confused we were by their responses until we talked it all over afterwards. We will need to have another discussion with them, but sadly we think mainly to tie up loose ends so that our reasons for not joining are clear to them. We have kind of had to grieve this, as we have been going here over a year, have many close relationships and thought we were in a conservative, theologically sound church and have been very surprised by what we have found out in just the last couple of months. We are new to the area and the more I do the prerequisit website research (as tasked by my husband) on area churches the more I'm saddened to find that almost all of them are recommending leftist, devisive, unbiblical resources to understand the current "racial tensions" in our country by reading books by authors like Thabiti Anyabwile, Kyle Howard, Eric Mason, Jemar Tisby, etc. I would like your thoughts on the difficulty of finding a good church that is standing for God's Word, when so many are promoting lies right now in the current political climate. Also, we would like your thoughts on allowing openly prochoice people to join the church as members.