Purpose Driven or Scripture Driven? - Way of Life Literature

I believe this with all of my heart, and I weep over thedamage that is being caused to the churches of Jesus Christby a methodology that is breaking down the wall ofseparation between God’s people and the world but that isdoing so under the guise of a love for the truth. Thisphilosophy of rejecting strict scriptural separation destroyedIsrael of old and it will destroy every church that goes downthe same road. What God complained of then is occurring inour day:“Her priests have violated my law, and have profanedmine holy things: they have put no difference betweenthe holy and profane, neither have they sheweddifference between the unclean and the clean, and havehid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profanedamong them” (Ezekiel 22:26).ConclusionOur day is described plainly in Bible prophecy:“For the time will come when they will not endure sounddoctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap tothemselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shallturn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turnedunto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).This generation has itching ears, and it will not hear thepreaching of God’s Word that plainly rebukes its sin andforthrightly condemns its heresies; but it eagerly hears--yea,flocks in droves to hear--those soft-speaking teachers that arewilling to tickle ears with a positive-only, non-offensive,unifying message. The same generation that hates theuncompromising, plain-spoken, “old time” fundamentaliststylepreaching, dearly loves the preaching of the BillyGrahams and the Rick Warrens and the Robert Schullers.Rick Warren claims that he has not compromised the Wordof God with his principles and methods, but when I look into29