PASSIONATELY DYING - THE CHURCH: THE GOSPEL OF ACCOMODATION
Author: Nehemiah Muhiri Mahulo Sr.
Date: May 26th, 2026
INTRODUCTION
The 21st Century has been mother to some of the most mind-bending inventions, activities, medicine, relationships, philosophy, and, most importantly, theology. “Emancipated” Theology has always been the catalyst for cultural revolution. From medieval times till now, we have seen how changes in the church and its philosophy have affected the trajectory of the world. Companies, Conglomerates, schools, universities, and Families are all radically affected when theology changes, even if it is just swayed slightly. These seemingly small changes (“and some which are just blatantly radical”) are not by mistake or accident. The Bible teaches us that once we become Christians, we join a battle with the flesh, the devil, and the world. We have been made aware of the days when the Holy Spirit was under attack, where things were being attributed to Him that are contrary to scripture. We have seen the assault on Jesus Christ and His character. The most grievous of all is the assault on the character of God and his sovereignty, which is usually the first thing to go when the church does not have a firm stance on its Theology. In this article series, we are going to be looking at 8 things that are still going on today, especially in contemporary non-denominational churches, things fatal to the Christian, and when subconsciously embraced, they become death to the church, yet seemingly invisible to the church. Jesus reminds us in Matthew 7:5 that a day is coming when wolves will be in sheep's clothing. These wolves are fake pastors and elders in the church, inflicting small but critical errors. You might ask what day Jesus is talking about. Well, that day is here. In this article, we will be looking at the role of the congregation in this pandemonium.
THE GOSPEL OF ACCOMODATION
The logic of any institution is to move to the left towards greater accommodation. It takes no strength for any organization to move to the left. Many charges have been caught up in this institutionalized universalism. We have church leaders who have come to a true awareness that God’s word divides just as the Bible tells us. We have now decided that the Bible is divided in such a grand manner. Well, why don’t we minimize the points of division, even if the points of division include requirements for salvation? Churches have begun redefining what inequities are and how God defines them, as it is written in the Bible. Many leaders are now farming things that the Bible doesn’t farm and protesting things that the Bible does, we’ve been caught up in a true contradiction of belief. This is not the first time this is happening when we look back into the church’s life, we see that similar attempts were made by many who were rebutted as heretics
Even though these people are cast off from teaching in the church, the students’ doctrine and beliefs very much live on. This includes universalism, secularism, and its sisters. This teaching crept into the doctrinal foundations of many mega touches, thus influencing a large population of Christians who have now united in the Kumbaya of accommodation
All this philosophy has been tried, tested, and proven to fail in the greater picture of humanity. The fact that many are now clinging to this system of thought in the church should be ringing bells in our heads. Now, you may say, " Why is this so important? She’ll even be taking time to talk about this after all. It’s just accommodation, but I beg to differ this which was started initially as small out of compromise has now evolved into affecting what the church is supposed to teach on Sunday when I have Pastors who selectively preach the messages not for the sake of organization, but for the sake of avoiding content that they deem will divide their church, essentially saying that, if God‘s word instructs us to do something that we deem to be painful or contradicting to our own ways, then we will put that instruction to the pending list
This has led to churches having uninformed congregations that are not equipped with the word, congregations that are fully at the mercy of the Pastor, who himself has chosen to omit some scriptures from the Bible teachings. Peter reminds us that we should always be ready to give a reason for our faith. We should always be ready to defend our faith, but if we are not informed, if we have never read the true word in its totality, if what we read is a skeleton that has been intentionally shaped in a certain way, hiding certain things just for our liking, then we can never fully give a reason for our faith. It’s because of this that now we are having a problem with the church where the world has saved in because people no longer know what their identity is as a member of the church or even as a member of the body of Christ, we have now become susceptible to the attacks of the world, the flesh and the devil because we are no longer equipped with a word instead all we try ourselves in is a diluted version of things that are appeasing to us. Paul warns us of this. He writes and says be careful, for there are days coming where people won’t want to hear the true word, they will want their ears to be tickled. Essentially, they will want to hear only the things that are pleasing to their ears, and that is where the church is today.
In Romans 13 verse 11, Paul reminds us to wake up from slumber, for salvation is at hand. We have to wake up from this lumber of accommodation to all that blows our way. We can no longer afford to be afraid of cultural rhetoric culture backlash, or even cultural rejection. We have to preach the word in its totality without adding or omitting anything. Let us bear in mind that Jesus talks to us about these things. He tells us that if the world prosecuted him, how much more so us, so let us not be shocked when prosecution comes to our door and try to make accommodations for every critic in the church takes on instead let us hold our feet firmly in the word of God and on the truth that he’s revealed to us through the Holy Spirit.
In order for the charge to no longer be susceptible to making accommodations of universalism, we must
Know who we are as the children of God, as the body of Christ, and as co-heirs of his kingdom
We must be ready to fight against cultural systems and patterns that are not biblical. Let us not accept everything that walks into our doorstep. Instead, let us shape the culture of the church according to the commandments of God. The church has to be a place of identification for believers, correction, uplifting, and experiencing the presence of God, so that those who come there experience the presence of God, his authority, and his glory
We have to explicitly instruct the coming generation. We can’t afford to leave the next generation to chance. The world is already training and developing the next generation in every industry, be it music. Fashion, entertainment, architecture, science, medicine, and philosophy. The church has to take this very seriously, instructing and ensuring that the next generation clearly understands the ways of God and not only the commands, but the why behind the practices of the church.
Universalism is a dangerous drug that slowly creeps through cracks in an organization that has forgotten its identity, what it’s about, what it is for, and what it’s supposed to do. As the church, may the Bible be our guiding light and may the Bible define our patterns. Our list of affirmations should only be declared by the church leadership, but ALWAYS defined by God
