Spiritual treason is evident but treason can also be in the eye of the beholder.

Posted on by Don

I agree with what Steve Camp says in this article but have two statements and one observation on what he said. I observe you made a comment on Christian bloggers making revenue by putting advertising on their blogs as if this is wrong. Then I observe that you posted your article on a website that has many advertisements on both sides of your article?

My statement is that many bloggers and websites ministries that present Christian material are working full time at it and I think they have a right to try to make some income to support themselves and their families. Thank God that most of us have other sources of income because advertising revenue for most websites and blogs would hardly cover the Internet expenses yet support the Internet ministry staff and their families. I do not advertise myself or ask for donations because I have independent income but others are not so fortunate. If most of these full time Internet ministries were not supported by advertisement or donations they could not exist. So keep that in mind before you are so critical that some Christian bloggers advertise.

Also let me say something about the Christian Book stores you slam. They are a business, the owners are not theologians nor do they have the time to go through each book to see if it meet someone’s heresy test. This business is one where it is now very difficult to make a living at since the most popular books are being sold in secular superstores cheaper. The stores mainly stock what Christians buy and ask for. Perhaps the blame should be placed on the ignorance and the heretical and air headed tastes of those who shop in Christian bookstores and not on those owners who have to fulfill the wishes of its customers to stay in business.

Having said all that, your article on Spiritual Treason still is a worthy read.

Beware of the Subtlety of Spiritual Treason – CWN

Keeping the Lord Jesus Christ preeminent in all that we do in ministry is at great tension today. Pragmatics seem to be the official plumb-line that most use to measure the effectiveness of their local church and/or public ministry. The definition for successful ministry has been dumbed-down to one thing: numbers.

Consider this:
Some emerging churches justify their scatological and irreverent techniques due to the number of people they claim to add to their fold under a neoreformed banner. Their acceptance by blinded evangelical leaders to their popularity is their stamp of approval – not the Word of God. Christian bookstores will knowingly carry everything from faulty translations of the Bible, to unsound doctrinal authors, plus Christian-trinkets; and will justify doing so for pragmatic and bottom line considerations. It is the same reasoning used by the CCM companies and Christian book publishers for selling their entities to nonbelievers. They have become “unequally yoked” in a spiritual ministry or enterprise with unsaved people; but will do cartwheels to justify surrendering their spiritual autonomy for the sake of widening their distribution to increase revenue… though Scripture forbids it (2 Cor. 6:14-7:1)..

Such is the time we live in; what works in the marketplace, not what is true, rules the day in today’s commerce-driven evangelicalism. Even Christian bloggers are now selling advertising space on their blogs to generate some kick-back revenue from those they advertise. Making retail of the truth is done with the blink of an eye these days beloved. And here I was naive enough to think that the blogosphere was actually going to be the last pure commercial free arena for the proclamation of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and doctrinal discussion. The evangelical pragmatists seem to win every time.

This faulty methodology has now given way to the acceptance of unsound theology; because the audience (not the Savior nor the Scriptures) is the new “sovereign” in Christian ministry (I.e. consider the embracing of an anti-Trinitarians like T.D. Jakes and Phillips, Craig and Dean. Their market influence has trumped biblical truth even among those who know them to be in error.)

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