Fundamentalism Vs. Jesus

The kaleo book club is reading Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bawer. I don't want to get into a book review, but I will give you a quick synopsis. Bawer states there has always been two churches, The Church of Law and The Church of Love. (Quick) I wanted to post a quote from his book by a man named Walter Rauschenbusch. This is Rauschenbusch's take on where The Church of Law has taken American Christianity.

Because the Kingdom of God has been dropped as the primary and comprehensive aim of Christianity, and personal salvation has been substituted for it, therefore men seek to save their own souls and are selfishly indifferent to the evangelization of the world.

Because the individualistic conception of personal salvation has pushed out of sight the collective idea of a Kingdom of God on earth, Christian men seek for the salvation of individuals and are comparatively indifferent to the spread of the spirit of Christ in the political, industrial, social, scientific and artistic life of humanity, and have left these as the undisturbed possession of the spirit of the world.

Because the Kingdom of God has been understood as a state to be inherited in a future life rather than as something to be realizied here and now, therefore Christians have been contented with a low plane of life here and have postponed holiness to the future.

Makes me wonder how far off track billygrahamianty has taken us. Not that altar experiences are not important, but how often we forget, or choose to ignore, Christ as teacher, rabbi, master and perfect example of the life we are called to follow him into. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on Earth.