OK, it sounds kinda goodish to try to reform the too liberal churches.
However, I think what has been happening is that the liberal churches have been involved in the development of the Apostasy which is prophesied in the NT.
I attended a liberal mainline church with my parents when I was a child. No one ever told me the gospel. Not even my parents, who both attended seminary. I even knew quite a few Christians of various persuasions over the years, and while some of them wanted to recruit me to their church, none of those folks ever explained the gospel to me.
God's gospel involves gaining an understanding of the Person and finished work of Christ.
When my unsaved husband forced me to attend his church where he had received a false conversion, I decided to see if I could make a difference, since I didn't have much choice. The unsaved pastor opposed me when I tried to speak of the true gospel. He preached that the gospel I believed "used to be popular," but is not popular anymore. He was fine with me whenever I compromised myself in order to go along to get along, but he was in opposition to the truth, and I did not feel good about that. He also gave my stepdaughter a false conversion.
No one who believes a false gospel, which has some form of works based salvation mixed in (Jesus plus something the sinner performs), will gain entry to Heaven. The self-righteous do not enter the Kingdom, but only those whose righteousness is 100% the work and righteousness of Christ. That is God's standard.
"What can wash my sins away, nothing but the blood of Jesus," as the song goes. Liberals neither understand nor like hearing about the once-for-all blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God. My churchgoing mother said she did not like listening to sermons about "blood sacrifice." She thought that was old-fashioned.
But yeah, go for it! Just don't try to reform them all by yourself. You would need a team of dedicated believers.
OK, it sounds kinda goodish to try to reform the too liberal churches.
However, I think what has been happening is that the liberal churches have been involved in the development of the Apostasy which is prophesied in the NT.
I attended a liberal mainline church with my parents when I was a child. No one ever told me the gospel. Not even my parents, who both attended seminary. I even knew quite a few Christians of various persuasions over the years, and while some of them wanted to recruit me to their church, none of those folks ever explained the gospel to me.
God's gospel involves gaining an understanding of the Person and finished work of Christ.
When my unsaved husband forced me to attend his church where he had received a false conversion, I decided to see if I could make a difference, since I didn't have much choice. The unsaved pastor opposed me when I tried to speak of the true gospel. He preached that the gospel I believed "used to be popular," but is not popular anymore. He was fine with me whenever I compromised myself in order to go along to get along, but he was in opposition to the truth, and I did not feel good about that. He also gave my stepdaughter a false conversion.
No one who believes a false gospel, which has some form of works based salvation mixed in (Jesus plus something the sinner performs), will gain entry to Heaven. The self-righteous do not enter the Kingdom, but only those whose righteousness is 100% the work and righteousness of Christ. That is God's standard.
"What can wash my sins away, nothing but the blood of Jesus," as the song goes. Liberals neither understand nor like hearing about the once-for-all blood sacrifice of the Lamb of God.
But yeah, go for it! Just don't try to reform them all by yourself. You would need a team of dedicated believers.