We're back with Dr. Russell Moore of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, filling

in this week for John Piper.

Not surprisingly, Dr. Moore were seeing a surge of evangelicals who have come out in support

of so-called Samsex marriage, including Christian organizations, missions agencies, churches,

denominations, prominent pastors, recording artists, musicians, and authors, etc.

I'm sure in the months ahead, a pro-gay marriage book will be endorsed by a Christian leader

who will surprise us, tweets, interviews, YouTube clips, will surface and surprise us with

the words of some unlikely teachers that we thought we knew.

In light of all of this, what advice would you give ordinary Christians when these out

of nowhere controversies in the church blow up in their Twitter feeds?

That's a really good question, and I think you're right.

We are going to see more and more people within evangelical Christianity starting to capitulate

on some of these core issues.

I think what some people are doing right now is gauging what the landscape is like.

There's always this sort of figure in evangelical life who is out on the edge questioning key

Christian doctrines, but doing so in a kind of ambiguous way.

Then typically, at some point or other, that person has to forthrightly state what he or

she believes.

Once that happens, once that is an actual denial of some biblical doctrine, that person

then loses his or her audience.

We've seen that just over and over and over again.

I think there are some people who are gauging how far out there can I get on some of these

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