PREACHING:
WATERED DOWN

I have listened to certain speakers and have recognized the ingredients that went to make up their teachings. A bit of Freud, a dash of Emile Coulé, a lot of watered-down humanism, tender chunks of Emersonian transcendentalism, auto-suggestion à la Dale Carnegie, plenty of hopefulness and religious sentimentality, but nothing hard and sharp and specific. Nothing of the either/or of Christ and Peter and Paul. None of the “Who is on the Lord’s side” (Exodus 32:26, KJV) of Moses, or the “Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15) of Joshua: just tender pleading to “take Jesus and let Him solve your problems.”…

The notion is now pretty well disseminated throughout the ranks of current evangelicalism that love is really all that matters and for that reason we ought to receive everyone whose intention is right, regardless of his doctrinal position, granted of course that he is ready to read the Scriptures, trust Jesus and pray.

Exodus 32:26; Deuteronomy 10:12; Joshua 24:14–15; 1 Kings 18:21

God Tells the Man Who Cares, 60, 61.