Truth is truth.

At New Hope Christian Fellowship we have a real commitment to God's Word as absolute truth. It is our sole authority for how we ought to glorify God, run our church, live our lives.

I am saddened that there are many "Christian" churches that do not seem to share that same commitment. Today I read an interesting piece by Albert Mohler. He was commenting on a newspaper article in the Arizona Daily Star about Tucson area churches who are changing the language in their worship services to make church less offensive. The quotes from these church leaders just left me stunned. Try this example:

St. Francis in the Foothills United Methodist Church has been minimizing its use of "Lord" for two decades, senior pastor David Wilkinson said.

"We usually change 'Lord' to 'love' or 'soul' or 'light,' " Wilkinson said. "It's pretty much a hierarchical, patriarchal image we're getting rid of."

Or how about this one...

"Lord" has become a loaded word conveying hierarchical power over things, "which in what we have recorded in our sacred texts, is not who Jesus understood himself to be," St. Philip's associate rector Susan Anderson-Smith said.

YIKES! Now I don't think we ought to be obnoxious in our faith, nor should we be offensive out of a sense of pride or feeling of superiority. But truth is truth! And if you find yourself offended by something that is true--well, it's still true! We use a hierarchical word like "Lord" because (you guessed it) the universe has a hierarchy!

I could say a lot about this, but maybe I'll save it up for a sermon or a really long blog entry one of these days. In the meantime, I highly recommend Mohler's response to these Tucson churches and the many others like them:

Not Much 'Lord' in this Church Service

And believe me, our church is and always will be proud to proclaim the Lordship of Jesus Christ and to submit to His Word as absolute truth!