I don’t know about you, but I find this story to be particularly outrageous and offensive. Forget about priests and pastors upholding the teachings of the Christian faith – here’s a woman who wants to toss two thousand years of Christian tradition into the trash bin. Her name is the Rev. Gretta Vosper, and do well to remember her name, for she is both the face and the future of the mainline Protestant churches (my boldings):

She wants salvation redefined to mean new life through removing the causes of suffering in the world. She wants the church to define resurrection as “starting over,” “new chances.” She wants an end to the image of God as an intervening all-powerful authority who must be appeased to avoid divine wrath; rather she would have congregations work together as communities to define God – or god – according to their own worked-out definitions of what is holy and sacred. She wants the eucharist – the symbolic eating and drinking of Jesus’s body and blood to make the congregation part of Jesus’s body – to be instead a symbolic experience of community love.

If this isn’t the ultimate example of a wayward generation’s self-indugent, narcissistic worldview, than nothing is. Don’t like what the Bible says? Don’t read it! Find the Christian understanding of God’s revelation in Jesus Christ and his death on the Cross for humankind’s sinfulness offensive? Change God! It’s so typical of today’s liberal/progressive thinking: if you don’t like the rules by which society has traditionally played, alter the rules so you aren’t pushed or challenged to think any other way than you do. It’s not just pathetic and sad, it’s dangerous as well, for its so-called “ministers” like Ms. Vosper who will be held responsible by God for putting the souls under their care in grave danger.

If you’re a member of a mainline Protestant denomination and want to see the future of where your church is going, well, you’ve now seen it. And if you think that’s impossible, all I can say is take a look at the church you attend this weekend and compare it to what it was just 10-15 years ago. This, my friends, is what you get when you cease to worship Jesus as Lord, Savior, and Redeemer, and instead worship at the altar of diversity, tolerance, and inclusiveness. The barbarians are at the gates; is it any wonder that for many, Rome is looking better and better all the time?