“I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God’s curse!
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:6-10

Truth does not shift or change to accommodate culture. What was once wrong does not become right, and what was once held in highest esteem does not become irrelevant. As we watch our culture slip further and further down the slope of moral decay, as we watch churches and those who claim Christ reversing their views on marriage and morality in order to placate our corrupt culture, my heart aches and my mind reels at what is happening in my lifetime.

The truth, plainly spoken in Scripture, is obvious in its meaning and intent to those who come humbly to receive it. But to those who have been corrupted by the flesh and a desire to feel ‘relevant’ to people who have no desire to follow the truth of Christ, there are seemingly no more lines they will not cross in order to stand for this great, gaping moral failure and distancing from truth they simply regard as old, stodgy, backward tradition.

The Gospel is what the Gospel is. We are met by it as it is, in its wholeness and in its foundational truths. We either accept it as a whole, taking it for what it is, or we are creating something of our own, born in our sin and selfishness. If someone comes teaching another Gospel, another message besides the one originally taught, Paul plainly states here, then it is no gospel at all. It is a work of confusion and perversion, and nothing more. It isn’t mercy or enlightenment. It isn’t ‘proper interpretation’ or in ‘the context of the day.’ It is a corruption, a deception and leads to nothing but death.

Just plastering the name of Jesus on something that maintains a few of His teachings, cherry picked to make things feel nice, this ‘almost truth’ has been a tactic of the enemy from the get-go. To look at truth and speak the phrase ‘Did God really say…?” distorting things, tweaking them just a little, we find something that looks close enough, that feels okay, and that satiates our fleshly need to be satisfied, we find a cocktail of pluralism, universalism and sin. There is no need to beat around the bush with this or try to say it in a ‘nicer’ way. It is a false gospel. Period.

And if we are going to GoLove people for the sake of Christ, then we need to be lamp-bearers for the truth and for the Bridegroom. Trim your wicks. Refill your lanterns and stand ready. Truth doesn’t change to accommodate culture. It never has. God’s holy truth is found plainly spoken in His Word and requires no extra tweaks or twists. In order for us to be faithful servants of Christ, we simply seek to please the One who first loved us and we serve those around us in His truth and with His love and we trust in Him above any cultural conscience.