The Problem with Liberal Churches

I’m browsing through Addison Hodges Hart on Strangers and Pilgrims Once More: Being Disciples of Jesus in a Post-Christendom World and came across this quote:

Mainline (“liberal”) Protestantism, meantime, continues to evaporate like an insubstantial morning mist. Left-wing in politics, “nice,” bland, ineffective, graying, vague in message, spineless in matters of sexual morality, and doctrinally vaporous, it was little spark left within it and suffers from a relentless loss of numbers from its pews. And so on. The handwriting might well seem to be on the wall – “weighted and found wanting.” (p. 116).

The two best books critiquing “liberal” churches are:

Thomas Reeves, The Empty Church.

Thomas C. Oden, Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements