What exactly is Progressive Christianity?

If someone calls themselves a "progressive" Christian what do they believe (or more importantly, NOT believe)? This can be a hard question to answer because most progressive Christians do not hold to one specific creed or tenet of belief. In this video, Alisa Childers breaks down in simple terms how progressive Christians view the Bible, the message of the Gospel, and how that differs from biblical and historic Christianity. You don't want to miss it!

📚 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 ▶️ Jesus, You and the Essentials of Christianity by Frank Turek: INSTRUCTOR Study Guide👉📱 https://cutt.ly/eIyeiKG, STUDENT Study Guide👉📱https://cutt.ly/OIyegwW, and DVD👉📱https://cutt.ly/aIyelh6 ▶️ Letters to a Young Progressive by Mike Adams👉📱https://cutt.ly/fI4jlNY ▶️ Another Gospel? by Alisa Childers👉📱https://bit.ly/3Ig6KDc 🤝 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗖𝗥𝗢𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗫𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 (𝗧𝗔𝗫-𝗗𝗘𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗕𝗟𝗘) 🤝 ● Website: https://crossexamined.org/donate/ ● PayPal: https://bit.ly/Support_CrossExamined_... 👥 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 👥 ● Facebook: https://facebook.com/CrossExamined.org ● Twitter: https://twitter.com/Frank_Turek ● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfrankturek/ ● Pinterest: https://pin.it/JF9h0nA 🗄️ 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗖𝗘𝗦 🗄️ ● Website: https://crossexamined.org ● Store: https://impactapologetics.com/ ● Online Courses: https://www.onlinechristiancourses.com/ 🎙️ 𝗦𝗨𝗕𝗦𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗘 𝗧𝗢 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗗𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧 🎙️ ● iTunes: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast ● Google Play: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Google ● Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_P... ● Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher #WhatIsProgressiveChristianity #DefinitionOfProgressiveChristianity #AlisaChilders #JorgeGil #AnotherGospel #SoundDoctrine #EssentialsDoctrinesOfChristianity #Gospel #Sin #Cross #Jesus #Resurrection #Repentance #Bible #TheBibleAccordingToProgressiveChristians #CrossExamined #Apologetics #CrossExaminingIdeasAgainstTheTruthOfChristianity

Mini-Reformation | Toby Sumpter

In this episode of Having Two Legs, Pastor Toby Sumpter explains how repentance relates to cultural reformation. Check out more from Toby on Canon Plus: https://mycanonplus.com/tabs/discover... "What does it look like to be eager for revival, to stand on your tiptoes, asking God for reformation? The center of true, biblical reformation and revival is repentance."

7/26/15 "Compelled by Sorrow and Repentance" (2 Cor 7:2-16)

"Compelled by Sorrow and Repentance" 2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Pastor Kyle Van Tine at Summit View Church: Heritage Park Campus

Listen to this Sunday's sermon by following this link

CG Coaching for Week #8 of 2 Corinthians: "A Church Compelled" 

Sunday, July 26th sermon by Pastor Kyle Van Tine   

"Compelled by Sorrow & Repentance" - (2 Cor 7:2-16) 

Growing Deeper

Depression is often called the common cold of the soul. Eventually, most people catch it. Even Paul catches it. He was afflicted from within and without. Quarreling and conflict dogged him. Paul had followed God willingly into the fray of spiritual warfare and now was paying the cost of the battle. He was fearful for the church he had planted and he was exhausted with a troubled soul for the people he loved. But comfort was coming; God sent Titus. Titus’ visit is a slice of God’s comfort for Paul. His joy is doubled by the news of the repentance of the Corinthians.Paul gains strength in the well being of others and finds joy when others repent. Worldly grief weeps for our losses. Godly grief weeps for sin against God. It produces repentance.Joy and sorrow are often linked in our Christian lives. Sorrow comes when we recognize sin. Joy celebrates when repentance and spiritual prosperity are present within the church. We need to be like Paul-- other-focused and seeking the spiritual prosperity of the church body through the repentance of its members. We need to be infected by a yearning for one another’s spiritual health. To learn how to walk beside and love others to godly repentance. To support others as they join God in the battle against sin. The Christian life is a life lived before the face of God. We must strive to reflect God’s goodness in the way we grieve, mourn, comfort and repent. 

Read 2 Corinthians 7:2-16; Psalm 51, I Thessalonians 3:6-13.

Repentance means to turn around. It is a sincere decision to forsake selfish sin and to value what God desires. It isn’t self-disgust, it is sorrow.

• What are your joys and your sorrows? 
• How do you respond to a loving rebuke?
• What are the characteristics of a trusted person who can listen to another person’s deep longings and secrets with care and love?
• Is there someone you need to encourage to be strong in the battle against sin? 

Recommended reading: Side by Side by Edward Welch 

Summit View Church - CG Coach Week #8 - 2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sunday, July 26th  -  Pastor Kyle Van Tine  -  "Sorrow and Repentance"

Growing Deeper

Depression is often called the common cold of the soul. Eventually, most people catch it. Even Paul catches it. He was afflicted from within and without. Quarreling and conflict dogged him. Paul had followed God willingly into the fray of spiritual warfare and now was paying the cost of the battle. He was fearful for the church he had planted and he was exhausted with a troubled soul for the people he loved. But comfort was coming; God sent Titus. Titus’ visit is a slice of God’s comfort for Paul. His joy is doubled by the news of the repentance of the Corinthians.Paul gains strength in the well being of others and finds joy when others repent. Worldly grief weeps for our losses. Godly grief weeps for sin against God. It produces repentance.Joy and sorrow are often linked in our Christian lives. Sorrow comes when we recognize sin. Joy celebrates when repentance and spiritual prosperity are present within the church. We need to be like Paul-- other-focused and seeking the spiritual prosperity of the church body through the repentance of its members. We need to be infected by a yearning for one another’s spiritual health. To learn how to walk beside and love others to godly repentance. To support others as they join God in the battle against sin. The Christian life is a life lived before the face of God. We must strive to reflect God’s goodness in the way we grieve, mourn, comfort and repent. 

Read 2 Corinthians 7:2-16; Psalm 51, I Thessalonians 3:6-13.

Repentance means to turn around. It is a sincere decision to forsake selfish sin and to value what God desires. It isn’t self-disgust, it is sorrow.

What are your joys and your sorrows? 

How do you respond to a loving rebuke?

What are the characteristics of a trusted person who can listen to another person’s deep longings and secrets with care and love?

Is there someone you need to encourage to be strong in the battle against sin? 

Recommended reading: Side by Side by Edward Welch 

Austin Stone's series on Sexual Sin: What does it look like to repent?

New Year's 2015 - "A New You" - John 3:1-15

Well it's New Year’s 2015. How many of you guys have made a New Year’s Resolution? Culturally we love and celebrate New Year’s because it represents a time to start over, that we can change, that we can start off with a clean slate. I’m not against new year’s resolutions I think they can be helpful, I think they can be a form of repentance but New Year’s cannot produce a new you. Resolutions can produce behavior modification but not heart transformation

Big Idea: Jesus didn't come to make us better; he came to make us new! 

-The Necessity of New Birth (John 3:1-3) 

-The Nature of The New Birth (John 3:4-6)

-The Evidence of the New Birth (John 3:7-8)

-The Basis of the New Birth (John 3:9-15)

You can listen to "A New You" by following this link. 

  

I Sinned...Now What? Part 2: Repentance

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I Sinned...Now What?

Part 2: Repentance

The theological term for the process of becoming more like Christ is called sanctification, and it is a concept that seems to be experiencing somewhat of a revival among Christians. A quick look around your local Christian bookstore or online will reveal thousands of books, sermons, and teachings that give techniques and strategies about avoiding, hating, and eliminating sin in the Christian life. I have access to plenty of information and techniques to avoid sin as I live my new life in Christ. But what if I sin anyway?

Christians have historically been very bad at answering this question. In the early church, a book called the Shepherd of Hermas heretically seems to imply that believers can only be forgiven for continued sin once after they’re baptized. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, believed that Christians could actually obtain perfection and never sin again. There is staggeringly little honest teaching throughout Christendom on the personal continual battle with indwelling sin, especially in regards to failure. However, the Bible does address this issue and it is good to sort through it and be reminded of the truth. The Apostle Peter says, ^“Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have. I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder” (2 Peter 1:12-13). So let us be stirred up by way of reminder to continue our fight with sin both during and following failure.

Now What?

So what is the biblical response for Christians who struggle with sin? It can be outlined as the following: feeling the conviction of the Holy Spirit, repenting, confessing, accepting forgiveness, and resolving to continue the fight. Our first blog explored the conviction of the Holy Spirit. We will now tackle repentance.

Repenting

In the last section we looked at the three different reactions we might have immediately after sinning: condemnation, passivity, or conviction. After we sinned, the Christian receives the gift of conviction brought by the Holy Spirit , which is designed to propel us to repent of the sin we’ve just committed. Repentance is turning, even right after we’ve sinned, from rebellion to Jesus Christ who is the Truth. This is important because repentance isn’t an end within itself as both our culture and Christians alike tend to mistakenly believe. The popular concept of “repentance” is based on emotional regret, where feeling really bad equals being repentant. Biblical repentance isn’t just feeling bad. The Bible has a fuller, meatier meaning to the concept of repentance that deals with our hearts, with our desires, and with our joy. When John the Baptist was preaching repentance to the religious folk in the Bible-belt of that time, he didn’t say, “Feel bad and get baptized.” Rather, he said, “Bear fruits in keeping with repentance”(Luke 3:8). It is crucial to realize that Christian repentance isn’t just a feeling or even a one-time action, but a consistent lifestyle of repenting, confessing, accepting forgiveness, and resolving to continue the fight. Martin Luther summarized this point when he nailed The Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. The very first thesis states: “Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ….willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.”

After we’ve sinned and felt convicted of our rebellious action or thought, we must repent. Practically that means we confess, accept forgiveness and resolve to continue fighting sin, which will be further detailed in upcoming blogs.

^“Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.”

(Revelation 3:19)