When the Church Chases Relevance It's Lost its Reason to Exist

 God is never changing.  He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  But when certain churches deny this fact, they try and change God/Jesus into someone who more readily fits into their societal expectations for today.

If the society wants to celebrate gay men doing unseemly perversions with each other...then some churches will start to fly the rainbow flag and celebrate these sodomites.  "All are welcome here!"

If society wants to believe that everyone goes to heaven, nirvana, paradise upon their deaths and are offended at Christ's words, "No man comes to the Father but through me."...then some churches will start to teach that good people of all persuasions go to the heaven of their choosing upon death. 

This shouldn't surprise us because the Bible tells us that in the Last Days men will surround themselves with teachers and preachers who TELL THEM WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR.

The article below is focused on the Church of England and how far THEY have fallen, but it stands as a warning to all churches of the world.

The installation of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury was supposed to project dignity, history, and hope. Instead, it exposed, once again, just how far the Church of England has drifted from biblical Christianity -- and why so many believers now view the institution less as a church and more as a fading religious bureaucracy desperately trying to keep up with the age. 

Sarah Mullally became the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury and the first woman ever to hold the office, in a ceremony staged with all the grandeur of Anglican tradition and all the theological confusion of modern liberal Protestantism.

That contradiction lies at the heart of the problem. The Church of England still dresses itself in the robes of historic Christianity, still speaks in the language of apostolic continuity, still places its leaders in ancient chairs and surrounds them with centuries-old ritual -- yet increasingly empties those symbols of their original meaning. It wants the authority of tradition while simultaneously rejecting the authority that tradition was supposed to preserve: the Word of God.

Dame Sarah Mullally's supporters will frame this as a triumph of progress, inclusion, and "representation." That is precisely the issue. In Scripture, the Church is never told to organise itself around representation politics or cultural symbolism. It is told to order itself according to God's revealed will. For many Bible-believing Christians, this installation was not a breakthrough but a public declaration that the Church of England now believes cultural validation matters more than biblical fidelity.

And if anyone doubted the direction of travel, the ceremony itself made it unmistakably clear.

Reports from the service noted a carefully choreographed display of multicultural and ecumenical inclusivity: prayers in Urdu, music in Xhosa, and broad gestures toward the Church's global and interfaith-facing identity. Even a Bible reading was delivered by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, while Mullally wore the episcopal ring once given to Michael Ramsey by Pope Paul VI -- a deeply symbolic gesture for anyone who understands the theological fault lines of the Reformation.

To some, those details will seem harmless, even beautiful. But to many evangelicals and Protestants who still care about doctrinal clarity, they signal something far more troubling: a church more interested in theatrical unity and institutional image than in truth. Biblical unity is not built on shared ceremonies, symbolic accessories, or carefully managed optics. It is built on shared submission to the truth of God. When a church begins to confuse pageantry with faithfulness, decline is not far behind.

Then there was the ceremony's internal symbolism -- arguably even more revealing than its ecumenical flourishes.

The modern Church of England elite keeps behaving as if the great crisis of our age is that Christianity might appear too narrow, too traditional, too doctrinal, too male, too old, too Western, or too certain. So it keeps remodeling itself to look more palatable to a post-Christian culture. But that strategy has failed for decades. It has not produced renewal. It has produced collapse.

Britain is not starving for a more fashionable church. Britain is starving for truth.

Young people are not ultimately searching for a more curated liturgy or a more "inclusive" ecclesiastical brand. They are asking the deepest questions human beings can ask: Why am I here? What is truth? What is wrong with the world? Is there judgment? Is there forgiveness? Is there hope beyond death? The answer to those questions will never be found in institutional reinvention. They will only be found in Jesus Christ and the unchanging authority of His Word.

That is why this ceremony felt so empty to so many Christians watching from the outside. It had grandeur, symbolism, and history. But it lacked the one thing that could have made it matter: unmistakable submission to Christ above the spirit of the age.

If the Church of England truly wanted to be relevant, it would stop chasing relevance.

It would preach repentance instead of self-expression. Holiness instead of accommodation. Obedience instead of aspiration. Christ instead of cultural applause.

Until then, ceremonies like this will continue to make headlines -- and continue to prove just how spiritually irrelevant the Anglican establishment has become.

Here;  A Church Chasing Relevance Has Lost Its Reason To Exist

As I see these pastors in all their robes, big hats, scarves and staffs, I can't help but think of Jesus' words when he warned us of "Sheep in wolve's clothing."  The whole world looks at them as Christian leaders when in reality their doctrine and teaching is keeping people on the wide road that leads to destruction.