Guarding the Gospel: How Christians Can Respond to Progressive Theology

I’ve started a series of posts about Progressive “Christianity,” which I shared in an hour-long presentation at Answers in Genesis women’s conference, Resolute. Between the sold-out weekend and week day events, 3,000 women learned about various discernment topics including mine: Progressive Christianity.

I know about this one on a personal level. I was raised in it. I believed it for years—until the Lord graciously opened my eyes to the false gospel it spreads – and the destruction it leaves in its wake. 

Progressive Christianity has infected nearly every denomination, reshaping core beliefs into a Christless religion—or at least one without the real Jesus. This unbiblical movement is a serious threat, because its teachings can sound fair and right to the world, but contradict God’s truth.

Progressive Christianity isn’t just another interpretation of faith—it’s a direct challenge to biblical truth. It twists God’s Word, questions long-held doctrine, and reshapes Christianity into something unrecognizable. It’s Carnal poison.

I want to help believers recognize what it is, and whether perhaps it has taken root in their own churches – or in their hearts.

What do we mean by Progressive? You might think of a political stance, but that’s not what I mean—though political and theological progressivism often go hand in hand. For this discussion we’re steering clear of politics. In fact, there are a great many conservative Christians who vote for politically conservative candidates and policies, but who are sliding into theological progressivism and don’t even know it.

Progressive Christianity is: a willingness to reinterpret long-held doctrines for a more inclusive and culturally relevant understanding of Christianity.

How many of us have heard someone say, “Your truth is yours, my truth is mine, and both are equally valid?”
That’s called Moral Relativism. It means truth is whatever a person believes it to be.

But as Bible-believing Christians, we stand on the certainty that truth isn’t relative—God is absolute truth. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” There’s only one truth, and it’s found in Him.

Thanks for your prayers! May the women who heard these presentations be edified and equipped, and may God be glorified.