Lol....OK I dropped my coin in the fountain.
What is “liberal Christianity”??
Thank you in advance.....Mary
Mrs.Mog, it's always good to hear from.
My staff and I have been waiting to hear from you to see what you would challenge us with.
First off, let me thank you for your support of our ministry, both with the coin and the question.
Liberal Christianity
Yes, That would need an explanation in this day and age.
Liberal by definition means "'Liberal' shares a root with 'liberty' and can mean anything from "generous" to "loose" to "broad-minded." Politically, it means "“a person who believes that government should be active in supporting social and political change."
Liberal as used in christianity is a bit different.
Christianity preaches freedom from this world, being generous with what God has given us, and being broad-minded in the way we interpret our beliefs compared to the way the world looks at us.
Jesus taught that he fulfilled the Law, he taught how the Pharisees abused the Law, he taught different things then what was taught in the Old Testament.
The Pharisees were quite conservative compared to Jesus, who was quite liberal compared to the Pharisees.
But these interpretations of the world and of the Spirit should not be mixed up.
If you can only see a worldly interpretation of "liberal", then you are missing the point.
Example;
Back in the late 1940's Frank Sinatra sang a song called "I'm Gay".
He danced around, waving his hands having a good time singing.
Frank Sinatra was not a homo.
The homos took the word and changed it.
That happens to lots of words in our language over time.
Today they have stolen the true meaning of liberal and turned it into a monster.