“Branded into my memory is the calm, kind, and intelligent voice of a man who was answering questions on a secular college campus. This is Alisa’s description of what came next. One day, she was listening to the radio in her car when she heard a speaker responding to skeptics’ questions about Christianity. (On the podcast I listened to, Alisa says her litmus test for progressive Christians is the question “Are you a sinner?”)Ĭhilders grew increasingly distressed by the class, but she didn’t know how to respond to the skeptic pastor or the doubts in her own mind. This movement of theological liberalism is called Progressive Christianity. Today there’s a word for the path Alisa’s pastor was on and where he was trying to take the class: deconstruction. Members of the class were encouraged when they scorned traditional Christian beliefs and were given only more questions, never answers. The class went downhill from there, as the pastor criticized beliefs Childers had held all her life- including the trustworthiness and authority of the Bible, the fallen state of man, and even the Atonement. But she was puzzled when the pastor identified himself as a “hopeful agnostic” at the first meeting. Soon, the pastor invited Alisa and some other church members to a special class he said would give them the equivalent of a seminary degree.įor Childers, who was a new mother and didn’t have a college degree, the class seemed like a great chance to stretch her mind. After her singing career ended, she and her husband joined a church they both liked. I enjoyed listening to her and decided I would buy her book as soon as it became available.Īlisa Childers was raised by caring Christian parents, was a member of the CCM band ZOEgirl, and loved Christ and the Bible. I first learned about Alisa Childers when I listened to her speak on The One Minute Apologist Podcast. The subtitle reads, “A lifelong Christian seeks truth in response to progressive Christianity.” Is the Gospel as taught by the apostles just as true today, or does Christianity need an update? This is the question addressed by a book released this month, titled Another Gospel?, written by Alisa Childers.

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