bobble.jpgLet’s put this as simply as we can: the United Church of Canada, Canada’s largest protestant denomination, is an apostate church. The Spirit has left, and they continue to treasure up wrath for themselves for the day of judgment (Rom. 2:5).

Today’s article in the Globe and Mail only confirms what some have said for years. In a quest to stem their declining membership and fill their empty pews, they have undertaken to spend $10.5 million on an ad campaign that they hope will rejuvenate interest in the “church.” I suppose they realized long ago that they had lost the ear of any conservative religious person in Canada and are now appealing to those who hold no biblical convictions whatsoever. Once the gospel of repentance from sin and faith in Christ is jettisoned and viewed as irrelevant, literally, all hell breaks loose. Among their catchy ad ideas are these:

One includes statues of two grooms on a wedding cake and asks, “Does anyone object?”

I’m supposing, however naively, that the United Church knows what the Bible is, and if they were to appeal to it in order to find an answer to their question, it would be amazingly clear to any sane reader that God does indeed object. One needs to ask if God’s “opinion” even matters to them.

Another features a can of whipped cream with the question, “How much fun can sex be before it’s a sin?”

Identifying sin is not about trying to figure out what we can get away with. The Christian life is about putting sin to death, not about seeing how far we can push the line before God gets “upset.”

“We are trying to increase the visibility and awareness of the United Church of Canada,” said Rev. Keith Howard, who is heading the three-year project, [not so suprisingly] called Emerging Spirit. Howard went on to say that the “overall objective of the campaign is not to convert people to Christinaity…but to speak to Canadians who already consider themselves Christians.” That is precisely the problem. If the church is not here to see sinners saved and become disciples of Jesus Christ, that is to say to be an instrument in the conversion of sinners to Christ, then it is nothing more than a social club that uses the guise of religion to keep it’s leadership gainfully employed. If the objective of an organization is not to see sinners come to Christ, then it has no right to even consider itself a church. If there are faithful ministers left in this decaying body, out of faithfulness to and love for Jesus Christ, they must leave. The Bible is just that clear on the matter.

[I inlcude the graphic from their bobblehead Jesus ad only to highlight the flippancy they have towards Him.]