The apostacy of "Liberal Western Christianity"

How this "Christianity" is a Hollow Shell of the Faith:

A great crisis has befallen the churches of the West. Once bastions of truth, many have been overtaken by a counterfeit Christianity—an insipid, revisionist distortion of the Faith that no longer bears the salt and light of the Gospel. This counterfeit Christianity, which parades under the banner of liberal theology, has eroded the foundations of the Church, poisoning the very wellsprings of Christian doctrine and practice. The Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church, the Church of Scotland, the Uniting Church of Australia, the United Church of Christ in America—these and many others have become hotbeds of spiritual rot. Specially within the Roman Catholic Church, and scandalously at times within the Vatican itself, the same creeping apostasy takes hold. Once orthodox evangelical circles are now being drawn into its web, seduced by a perverse and sentimentalized understanding of love and mercy that bears no resemblance to the truth of Christ.

Jesus warned of such deception: "If the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot" (Matthew 5:13). Yet, the very leaders of these churches, entrusted with preserving the Faith, have abandoned their posts. They have exchanged the truth of God for the applause of the world, seeking the favour of men rather than the approval of Christ.

The Betrayal: A Gospel Rendered Powerless

At the heart of this betrayal is a rejection of biblical authority. Liberal Christianity is characterized by its reliance on human reason, subjective experience, and cultural trends rather than the unchanging Word of God. It embraces modern intellectual fashions—critical theory, radical feminism, sexual liberation, and the dissolution of moral absolutes—while scoffing at the doctrines of sin, repentance, judgment, and the transformative power of the Cross. In its obsession with social justice causes, it picks and chooses which Christian ethics are acceptable to the world and which must be discarded.

These revisionists still claim the name of Christ, but their faith is an empty shell. They preach a Christ who demands nothing, who does not judge sin, and who conforms to the whims of the world rather than standing above it as Lord. They proclaim a gospel of inclusivity devoid of repentance, a love stripped of holiness, a mercy that winks at sin rather than delivering sinners from its bondage. This is not Christianity; it is a counterfeit.

Sexuality and the Defilement of Doctrine

Nowhere is this apostasy more evident than in the relentless push to affirm sexual immorality under the guise of Christian compassion. Homosexuality, transgenderism, and all manner of perversions are not merely tolerated but celebrated from pulpits once consecrated to the Word of God. Churches that should be calling sinners to repentance instead bless sin with the trappings of religious ceremony. The question that the serpent asked Eve in the Garden—“Did God really say?”—is now asked by priests, bishops, and theologians who seek to rewrite the commandments of God to align with the sexual revolution.

Yet the Scriptures could not be clearer: "Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men... will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). To reject this truth is not an act of love but a damnable lie.

The Moral Cowardice of the Church’s Leaders

The tragedy of the modern church is not merely the presence of false teachers but the cowardice of those who know better and say nothing. Too many pastors, bishops, and theologians remain silent for fear of being ostracized. They witness the desecration of their traditions, the abandonment of orthodoxy, and the celebration of sin, yet they offer no resistance. Their silence is complicity.

Meanwhile, those who do stand firm are branded as hateful, rigid, and unloving. But as G.K. Chesterton once said, “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” It is not love to tell a sinner that he need not repent. It is not mercy to affirm people in the very sins that will damn them. True Christian love warns, corrects, and calls to repentance.

The Bitter Fruits of Apostasy

What has been the fruit of this liberalized, revisionist Christianity? A dying church. Denominations that have embraced this new gospel are emptying at an alarming rate. The Anglican Communion is fracturing. The Church of Scotland is a shadow of its former self. The United Church of Christ and the Uniting Church of Australia are dwindling into irrelevance. The Catholic Church, where liberalizing forces gain momentum, decline follows. Where orthodoxy is abandoned, vitality disappears.

Jesus foretold this: "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots" (Matthew 15:13). A church that ceases to proclaim the true Gospel is not a church—it is a rotting corpse.

A Call to the Faithful: Hold the Line!

What then is to be done? The faithful must resist. We must reject the counterfeit gospel, call out the false shepherds, and stand firm in the truth even when it costs us. The early Christians did not bend the Gospel to suit the whims of Rome; they endured persecution rather than deny the faith. The Reformers did not conform to the corruptions of their age; they risked everything to restore biblical truth. Today, the choice is before us: will we conform to the world, or will we stand with Christ?

Let every faithful believer take heart. Christ promised, "I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matthew 16:18). Liberal Christianity may wield power in the halls of academia, the corridors of denominational bureaucracy, and within the Vatican itself. But it will not stand. Like every heresy before it, it will pass into irrelevance, while the true Church of Jesus Christ endures.

Now is the time to be bold. Now is the time to be unashamed of the Gospel. Now is the time to hold the line.

“Contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints” (Jude 1:3).