Hey friends, Elisa Childers here. Last weekend I had the honor of teaching a breakout session

at the first annual Women in Apologetics Conference at Biola University. So on today's

podcast we're going to do something a little different and listen to the talk I gave

you called, almost the real thing. How progressive Christianity has high-dacked the gospel.

An atheist philosophy professor, his faith is challenged for the first time, dismantled and he

walks away from his faith. Or there's another familiar story that I just heard from a woman in

one of the apologetics classes I was teaching at my church. Her daughter grew up in church.

Love Jesus went on mission trips, summer camp. Only she had never been exposed to any world you

other than Christianity. So she went off to college and she met a pantheist. And now she's a

pantheist. Well so these are familiar scenarios but we're all in an apologetics conference for women

so I don't have to convince you of the importance of preparing our kids to engage in

intellectually with the challenges they're going to face when they leave the safety of our churches

and our homes. This is something we talk a lot about at Apologetics conferences. But there's a

challenge that not many people are aware of and it's equally as powerful and equally as dangerous.

And this is a challenge that I encountered as an adult. See much like that student whose faith

was dismantled by the atheist philosophy professor. My faith was dismantled not within the walls of a

classroom but in the pews of a church. And more specifically this was a self-proclaimed evangelical

non-denominational church in the heart of middle Tennessee right in the Bible belt where I live.

This church went on to self-describe as a progressive Christian community. So how many of

you have heard the term progressive Christianity? Okay and how many of you have heard the emergent church?

You've heard that term. Okay it's very similar. We're almost always kind of talking about the same

thing except the emergent church has kind of been co-opted by this term progressive Christianity.

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