Here in this short post at Apprising Ministries I bring to your attention a very grave problem now affecting the mainstream of the church visible today. And that would be a huge misunderstanding concerning the nature of the spiritual warfare, which every genuine Christian is immediately thrust into the moment they are first regenerated by God the Holy Spirit.

In the last couple of years before he went home to be with the Lord Dr. Walter Martin told us of the burden Christ had laid upon his heart. In his lecture The Cult of Liberalism circa 1985 Martin warned:

Let me tell you something that I have learned; I know the liberals. I know them well; I was one of them. And they are the most dangerous, insidious, and all-pervading cult that’s loose in the United States right at this moment. They make the Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the Mormons, and all of the Mind Sciences, and the Occult, look like Sunday School teachers. Do you know why? Because these other people are outside the Church; and these devils are in it! And they’re doing it in Jesus’ Name.

They do not believe the Trinity; they do not believe the Deity of Christ; they do not believe the Virgin Birth; they do not believe the vicarious atonement; they do not believe the Bodily resurrection, and they have grave doubts about whether Jesus will ever come back again, and that the Bible is itself the Word of God. Yet I could give you a list of them that infest—and that’s the proper word—infest our theological seminaries; and our church related schools, and our denominations.

And this theological flea infestation is ruining the lifeblood of the Church, which is evangelism. And, you think these are very strong statements; I intend to back them up in—if necessary—excruciating details. For any person who does not know that today in the United States,  and in denominational structures world-around, we are in an accelerating apostasy does not know—I repeat—does not know what’s going on. (The Cult of Liberalism, CD Rom, available from Walter Martin Religious InfoNet)

The question the discerning Christian, those feeling an unexplained “urgency” in their spirit, now needs to ask is: Do we really think the Church is in better shape now than it was some 20+ years ago whenMartin was speaking? If you’ve been following the issues AM has been covering lately then you know the answer is absolutely not.

And from my own personal investigation I can tell you that Dr. Martin was dead on target when he said:

We have, for more than one hundred years, been under sustained attack in the United States; in our theological seminaries, church related schools, and our churches. A sustained attack by people, who have the form of godliness, and work within the structure of the Church and have—wherever they have been permitted the opportunity—diluted the Gospel and destroyed the Faith.

They occupy today the chairs in our major theological seminaries; the rulership of our major denominational structures—they maintain boldly and boastfully—“This the Church!” But it’s not the Church if it denies the power of the Gospel; it’s not the Church because it’s got a label. (The Cult of Liberalism, CD Rom, available from Walter Martin Religious InfoNet) 

Think with me here for a minute: If these people were teaching twenty years ago within so many mainline seminaries and denominational structures, do you really not see that they were also instructing many who are now the senior pastors within many pretending to be Protestant evangelical churches today?

Well, through years of using teachings from the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is a cult of postliberalism now within mainstream evangelicalism, the “accelerating apostasy” is now rapidly spreading throughout the entire visible church.

See also:

CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS STANDING UP FOR JESUS?

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH INFILTRATING EVANGELICALISM

PETER SCAZZERO PROMOTED BY RICK WARREN

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION IS RECKLESS FAITH

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND “INSIGHTFUL” EMERGING CHURCH HERETIC TONY JONES

WE’RE SO SORRY, UNCLE ALBERT, FOR “RED LETTER CHRISTIANS”

PHIL JOHNSON: AN EXCELLENT JEREMIAD FROM MR. SPURGEON