Insights from the film Enemies Within the Church
In the excellent documentary film Enemies Within the Church, narrator and pastor Cary Gordon interviews a generous number of evangelical leaders on how the social justice movement and its advocates have infiltrated the church and weakened it significantly. The following audio clip offers brief portions of four interviews. It’s just three-and-a-half minutes long, but the insights presented in it make the entire movie worth seeing and taking to heart. Go here to watch the film or to order it on DVD.
Bishop E. W. Jackson: You can’t have justice without God’s law because His standards are absolute. And that’s why communism is so dangerous, because once you say, “Well, there is no God,” well, then, anything I do in the cause that I’m committed to is OK, right? And that’s exactly what they believe! Anything! You want to see incarcerations, murders, torture, everything imaginable — separate man completely from God, and watch to see that there are no limits to the depths of depravity to which we will sink.
Rev. Cary Gordon, interviewing Dr. Everett Piper: I’ve noticed no one stops talking about justice. We still want justice even though it’s not really possible to have justice without law. What is the law that they’ve made to replace God’s law?
Dr. Everett Piper: It’s the subjective rather than the objective. It’s feelings rather than facts.
Rev. Cary Gordon: When law and love are discussed, is it best to juxtapose the two against each other?
Dr. Everett Piper: No, they’re the same thing.
Rev. Cary Gordon: They’re the exact same thing.
Dr. Everett Piper: Right. You can’t have legitimate love without honoring some sort of law.
Rev. Cary Gordon, interviewing Dr. Scott Stewart: Would you say that love is the most popular topic maybe in every pulpit in America?
Dr. Scott Stewart: Love wins!
Rev. Cary Gordon: Love wins —
Dr. Scott Stewart: Ummm, yeah.
Rev. Cary Gordon: Everyone talks about love all the time…
Dr. Scott Stewart: Right.
Rev. Cary Gordon: …and yet, do you believe most of the churches are even properly defining what love is?
Dr. Scott Stewart: No.
Rev. Cary Gordon: You have to have the Ten Commandments to really understand love.
Dr. Scott Stewart: You have to, because the Scripture tells us that, you know, even in 1 John, it says, “For this is the love of God, that we would keep His commandments.” And then it goes on to say, which I think is beautiful, is it says, “and His commandments are not burdensome.” Yet my entire life, all I’ve ever heard is that the commandments of God are weighty and burdensome, and problematic; and we need to get rid of them.
Rev. Cary Gordon: Rather than seeing the New Testament as a continuation of what God was already doing…
Dr. Scott Stewart: Right —
Rev. Cary Gordon: …but now, through Christ…, what I hear a lot of ministers doing is they’re pitting the New against the Old…
Dr. Scott Stewart: Correct —
Rev. Cary Gordon: Literally everything in the New Testament under that view becomes relativistic.
Dr. Scott Stewart: Yeah, it does.
Rev. Cary Gordon: Can you shape the New Testament to literally teach anything you want if you make love the only law, and it’s primarily just a feeling?
Dr. Scott Stewart: You can make any Scripture say anything you want to if you remove it from its context and you redefine terms. If you redefine terms, then you can make the Bible say anything you want it to say.
Michael Hichborn: Marxists will take what is already being used in the church; they’ll empty it of its meaning. So they’ll take away what its actual definition is, and they’ll refill it with a new meaning, or a new interpretation. Sacrifice is the very basis for love, but what the Marxist will say is that love is affection. They think that the way to approach love or the way to define love is to show affection for somebody — and also for the homosexuals. They say, well, if one man loves another man, as long as they’re celibate…. Well, wait a minute! Stop! You’re not defining love in the same way. You’re saying that it’s possible for them to have kind of a romantic interest in each other. That’s not proper. That’s not right. It’s disordered. But they’re now calling it love.
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