Contemporary Christianity: True or False?

Beware leaders of the modern church who use the terms ‘contemporary’ and ‘progressive’ and ‘relevant’ when explaining changes made to church structure and to actual scripture.

We must grasp this simple truth: anything that turns our focus away from God is not progressive, but spiritually regressive. (1 Peter 1:18-19, 23-25). Just ask yourself, do you spend more time listening to 'progressive Christian leaders' and reading their self-help books than you do in the word of God? The purpose of preaching should be to direct people to the Word, to their knees in prayer before God. When you obey God you humble yourself and exalt Him. But when you exalt yourself—as today’s mega church superstars teach you to do—you make an enemy of God. For He resists the proud but gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). ‘They will become lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God’ (2 Tim 3:2). Christian books distract us. They are filled with opinions and prejudices, often conflicting with true scripture. The bible is the only inspired word of God. So-called Christian books are not the inspired Word of God. Such works tend to spout pretty platitudes and quote extra-biblical sources. They think they must modernize scripture to make the bible relevant (The Message Bible being the absolute worst), but really what they should be doing is teaching scripture to make people relevant to God.

Don't take anything that I or any Christian writer tells you as gospel. If our works do not drive you to God and to His Word, then they are not works of God; they are works of and for the self. If our words do not increase your (biblically-accurate) knowledge of God, then they are empty words (Ephesians 5:6).