Now-a-days, if a man is very reverent towards the word of God, and very desirous to obey the Lord’s commands in everything, people say, “He is very precise,” and they shun him; or, with still more acrimony, they say, “He is very bigoted: he is not a man of liberal spirit;” and so they cast out his name as evil.

Bigotry, in modern parlance, you know, means giving heed to old truths in preference to novel theories; and a liberal spirit, now-a-days, means being liberal with everything except your own money—liberal with God’s law, liberal with God’s doctrine, liberal to believe that a lie is a truth, that black is white, and that white may occasionally be black. That is liberal sentiment in religion—the broad church school—from which may God continually deliver us.

Charles Spurgeon

HT: Pyromaniacs

See also:

PHIL JOHNSON ON THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM

TONY JONES, THE EMERGING CHURCH AND PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY

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

IN THE EMERGING CHURCH OOZE CONVERSION IS OUT 

APPRISING MINISTRIES WITH A PEEK AT THE COMING SOTERIOLOGY OF EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

THE MORPHING EMERGING CHURCH MOVEMENT

ACTIVELY-GAY “BISHOP” GENE ROBINSON SAME-SEX ACTS ONLY UNNATURAL FOR NON-GAYS