A New Social Gospel

If you thought the seeker-sensitive, Purpose Driven, prosperity gospel, and postmodern emerging church movement was bad, wait till you read this week’s Newsweek magazine!

There’s a new kind of Christian that’s brewing, and it’s a kind that’s promoting a new social gospel.

“Since leaving government, I’ve asked young evangelicals on campuses from Wheaton to Harvard who they view as their model of Christian activism. Their answer is nearly unanimous: Bono.”–Michael Gerson, NEWSWEEK

This week’s issue of Newsweek discusses the new broadening social agenda of evangelicals. Having failed to stop the slaughter of 50 million preborn Americans, evangelicals are now interested in seeing what they can do for global warming, Darfur, AIDS, and global poverty. Evangelicals are now where mainline denominations were 100 years ago. The Gospel has been terminally diluted and compromised while Christians rush to try to stop the world’s physical woes. We’ve been here before. History has an uncanny way of repeating itself.

(HT: Slice)

*I’m sure the whole PRODUCT (RED) campaign is having a big affect on everybody, including Christians, influencing many to spend more and more on overpriced commercial products just so a meager percentage of the price we spend on these earthly treasures gets donated to fight AIDS in Africa.