Liberal journalists can be so entertaining.  They presume to hector churches on how best to vitiate compromise update their theology.  (Anybody we know come to mind?)  Keep up with the times, you laggards, or you’ll become irrelevant.  Everyone who’s anyone will stop paying attention to what your church has to say.

Horrors!  In the minds of many modern clerics, that’s a fate worse than death.

Ted Byfield finds it all rather amusing.

One of the most rewarding disclosures when the liberal press venture forth into the mysterious world of religion is the astounding ignorance of both its history and its current condition that they so unerringly place on display.

They deliver severe admonitions to bishops and clergy, warning of the calamitous consequences their church will suffer if it does not liberalize its ecclesiology, compromise its theology and sodomize its morality.

Yet the very churches that have done all these recommended things are precisely those suffering such a disastrous exodus of their members that their church's very existence is now in question.

Churches following liberal nostrums are not only losing members; the sought-after social influence fails to materialise.  Churches that stick to the Bible and traditional convictions, on the other hand, prosper.

Go figure.

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