The Compromised Church

Add some progressive Christinaity, a sprinkle of new age, a pinch of some of the remnants of the seeker movement, a dash of the emergent church, and a healthy dose of the prosperity gospel.  Put it in a blender and add a healthy dose of whatever the world is teaching and pour it out,  You now have a compromised church.  Serve under an attractional / entertainment church model.  A compromised church is less about the King of Kings, the heart of God, and the cross of Christ, and more about building institutions unto yourself, legacies, and egos.  It is less about truth, substance, and the Bible and more about man's hopes, man's desires, and man's purposes.

Compromised churches come in all shapes and sizes.  The only real requirement is compromise.  You can compromise with the basic gospel message, water it down to try to make it acceptable.  Compromise on what the Bible says so that it aligns with what culture is doing.  Compromise with sin to make it more acceptable.  After enough compromises have been made, it will be easy for the members to look at the Bible to see how it can align with the culture, rather than looking at the culture to see how it does not align with the Bible.

Truth compromised for numbers

Substance compromised for money

Foundations compromised for legacy

Righteousness compromised for conformity

For many churches, the original compromise was aligning themselves with the purpose-driven / seeker movement.  With these movements, a new format was created, a format that did not rely on the Bible to shape the church but relied on business principles, studies, surveys, psychology, and sociology.  When churches moved away from these movements, there was a gap left behind.  This gap needed to be filled.  The original point of church was now gone, so something else needed to be inserted.  So different movements started entering the church.  New Age, prosperity gospel, progressive, attractional, entertainment, emergent, self help, the social gospel, and pop psychology.  Together, bits and pieces from all of these movements have given us the compromised church, a church no longer focused on the glory of God but on man’s desires and wants.

In many churches across America, the foundation is compromised.  We now have houses of cards standing across America.  Some churches are more ready for the antichrist than Christ the King.  Some churches are more concerned about money than righteousness.  And some churches are more concerned about building buildings, rather than building disciples.  Compromised churches across America are developing a new generation.  A  generation ready for religion, but not Christ.  A generation that wants love, as long as it is not the Biblical definition of love.  And a generation more concerned about themselves, than the things of Christ.  Christ is no longer king in many churches and lives across America.