Fundamental error #1: Progressive Christianity exchanges the authority of the Creator for the created.

Fundamental error #2: Progressive Christianity eliminates the need for repentance, reconciliation, and salvation.

Fundamental error #3: Progressive Christianity falls prey to the same problems as secular humanism, including logical inconsistency and moral relativism.

Fundamental error #4: Progressive Christianity redefines love as acceptance and affirmation.

Fundamental error #5: Progressive Christianity exchanges Christ-centered identity for self-centered identity.

What we believe matters. Truth can be known because God has revealed the truth in Jesus Christ.

"The dominant conclusion among progressive Christians is that love means affirming whatever journey a person wants to be on, such that they don’t feel judged….Whereas Christians with a biblical worldview should understand love to be the act of wanting for others what God wants for them, progressive Christians tend to understand love as the act of wanting for others what they want for themselves." -Natasha Crain, Faithfully Different

“Love, I have come to learn, is not God. Flip that. God is love. The God revealed in Jesus Christ is the definition of love. This difference changes everything...The cross is where that strange and holy God most clearly reveals his love...The cross is God’s intimate act of self-giving, his gentle way of critiquing our love of money, sex, self, romance, fame and power. These weaker loves, these idols we raise in our own image, could never compare with his infinitely greater love...It sounds like heresy in our culture, but romantic and sexual love are not the deepest expressions of our humanness. Unconditional love – God’s love- is.” - David Bennett, A War of Loves

A Prayer: “Jesus I trust in you as the Son of God, my Savior, and Lord over all creation. I confess and repent of any known sin in my life. I surrender to your love and lordship in my life. I receive your grace to save me and continually transform me as I follow you one step at a time. I rely on your love to empower me to participate in the coming of your kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.”

Progressive Christianity Fundamental Errors:

1. Exchanges the authority of the Creator for the created

2. Eliminates the need for repentance, reconciliation, and salvation

"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins." - Colossians 1:9-14 NIV

Any form of adherence to or acceptance of “Christian” Nationalism is a threat to our Christian faith and the witness of Christ’s church in the world.

"But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body." - Philippians 3:20-21

• Guiding Principle #1: We share much in common with Roman Catholic Christians, which can create bridges for connection and partnership.
• Guiding Principle #2: There is broad diversity in beliefs and practices across all Protestants and Catholics.
• Guiding Principle #3: There are significant differences between Protestant and Catholic beliefs that could impact a person’s salvation and sanctification.

• Protestant Christianity Foundation #1: Sola Scriptura - “Scripture Alone” – The final authority for faith and practice is scripture alone.
• Protestant Christianity Foundation #2: Sola Fide – “Faith Alone” - Salvation is by grace through faith in Christ alone.
• Protestant Christianity Foundation #3: Solus Christus – “Christ Alone” – Christ alone is the sufficient mediator of the blessings of the new covenant.

Scriptures: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Ephesians 2:1-10, Romans 3:21-25, James 5:16, 1 Peter 2:4-10

In this message, our guest speakers share about the 5 Pillars of Islam and compare them to the core beliefs of Protestant Christianity. They also offer encouragement and challenge in sharing the gospel with Muslims in our own neighborhoods.

"It is God’s mercy! The nations are here, all around us."

Three Critiques of Secular Humanism:

1. Secular Humanism is a logically inconsistent worldview.
2. Making the self "god" is Satan's oldest and most destructive tactic.
3. Secular Humanism leads down the slipper (and dangerous) slope of moral relativism.

A Biblical Worldview: When we embrace objective truth and moral authority in Jesus Christ (and His revelation to us), it leads to flourishing, freedom, and life.

The Goals of this Sermon Series Are:

1. To gain deeper understanding that will lead to deeper connection with God for each of us.
2. To equip disciples of Jesus to engage more courageously, intelligently and lovingly in conversations with people of other faiths and worldviews.

“If someone could provide reasonable answers to the most significant questions and objections you have about Christianity—reasonable to the point that Christianity seems true beyond a reasonable doubt—would you then become a Christian? - Geisler & Turek, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist

To learn more about this sermon series & access resources on each religion / faith worldview we are exploring, visit www.discoverjourneycc.com/currentseries

Jesus came to bring light, life, and hope to all those who trust in Him as the Son of God and Savior of humanity.

1. Jesus came for those who are distant.
2. Jesus came for those who are devoted.
3. Jesus came for those who have drifted.

Prayer of Salvation: "Jesus, I believe You are the Son of God, who died on a cross and rose from the grave. I confess my sins to You and trust in Your forgiveness. I trust You to bring light, life, and hope by grace through faith. Teach me how to be Your devoted disciple one step at a time. Amen."

"For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross." - Colossians 1:19-20

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." - John 1:1-5 NIV