Christianity 21

It's called Christianity 21. Apparently it is a gathering of people searching for something. I don't quite know what to make of it. The Web Site says, in part:

Christianity21 is more than just a set of presentations. The entire experience is designed to create value for the participants.

I did note that all of the participants are female, even Seth, (not that there's anything wrong with that) which I find strange, since it is not billed as a "female only" gathering. Many of the participants appear to have "gender identity" issues as is exemplified by this presenter:

Her name is Nadia. She's an ordained "Pastor" in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. Her church is House for All Saints and Sinners, Denver, Colorado. I only know of her by what I read on the web. I haven't been to her church, nor heard her speak. The fact that I do know, however, is this, which I obtained from her church's web site:

House for All Sinners and Saints' is a group of folks figuring out how to be a liturgical, Christo-centric, social justice oriented, queer inclusive, incarnational, contemplative, irreverent, ancient - future church with a progressive but deeply rooted theological imagination.

I've posted - a lot - recently about language and some of the reasons to be clear when communicating. This "church" makes it very clear why this is so important. The only place I found, in any of the church's or the Conference's material where an attempt was made to include God in their program is the phrase, "Christo-centric." But, that is not a religious, biblical, scriptural, or in any way god related phrase. It is about being human centered. It is sociological, progressive, (read liberal) feel good, jargon.

Moreover, the entire Christianity 21 set-up, appears to be no more than a redefined pagan celebration of all that is currently popular in American "pop" religion. The language they use, i.e., contemplative, social- justice, queer inclusive, irreverent, etc., says they are about designing a pragmatic "what works" religion.

"Theological imagination," I think, is the key to what so many, in our culture, like these people, find confusing. The Bible is objectively real, not imaginary. Theology is supposed to be about how men/women put into proper perspective the facts about God that He has given us in His Word. It is not supposed to be about imagining what we think about what He said.

God warned us about this kind of thing in His Word. He said:

(2 Peter 3:3) Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

I think God pretty well summed up who and what these people are about via that verse. They don't like the Christ of the Bible, so they are intent on inventing an imaginary savior.

In olden times this religion was called Pagamism. The Israelites built a Golden Calf to honor their pagan god, Christinity 21 appears to be using other means to honor theirs.