Deutero Q

"...Guinness even chided 'a growing number of recent evangelicals,' faulting them for cheapening the gospel by surrendering to 'modern insights, techniques, and fashions--as if we could become more relevant by doing the Lord's work in the world's latest way.'"

"But Guinness' harshest barb targeted the American Episcopal Church for 'one of the worst and most extreme capitulations to the spirit of the age ... its abject surrender to the sexual mores of the modern world.'"

"Guinness labeled the current ecclesiastical state as an 'Alice in Wonderland Church in which Christian leaders now openly deny what all Christians have believed and many have died to defend; Christian leaders who celebrate what their faith once castigated; Christian leaders who advance views closer to their foes than to their founder; and Christian leaders who deny the faith, but stay on shamelessly as leaders of the faith they deny.'"

Guinness also perceptively pointed out that sola scriptura has been replaced by sola cultura in much of Protestantism. His observation is right on target--much of the evangelical church now looks to secular culture rather than to Scripture as its guide for church life.