I happened to be flipping by on the radio today at lunch when I caught a few minutes of NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show” kind of a left wing, female, “Rush Limbaugh.” Normally, I would have just flipped on by, but I heard her guest say that “Christianity is misunderstood,” so I figured I would hang around long enough to hear what it was about… turns out her guest was a Harvard Divinity professor. (You know we are in trouble now!) He was saying that it took 300 years for Christianity to be “converted into a belief system with doctrine,” before that (he says) “it was just a group of people that wanted to carry on with Jesus’ mission of feeding the poor, and helping the weak.” “What is important to understand,” he says, “is that Christianity is not a personal, one-on-one belief system, but is only possible in a community.” “Which is why,” he says, the early church was, “just a community of people helping each other.” “Because,” he says, “one person alone can’t accomplish anything, only with the force of numbers, ie., in groups (like, maybe “big government”?!?) can anyone accomplish anything.” To all this, the host contributed, “Well, the Bible does say, where TWO or THREE are gathered in His Name, there am I in their midst.” “Yes,” he said, “that’s a start!”

Remember when Charles Capps said that we have had to have help to misunderstand the Bible? Well, this is one of the best examples I have seen! A Harvard Divinity professor that has no clue about being born again, what Jesus’ real “mission” was, and the blessing of personal salvation… but rather sees Christianity as only a “peaceful gathering of people to accomplish good works.” Or, as the Diane Rehm show web site says, “A longtime Harvard Divinity School professor talks about the future of faith. Harvey Cox says we’ve entered the Age of the Spirit, where dogma is less important than spirituality for many Christians.”

Pray for the “intelligentsia” that they see the light of God’s Word!