How to spot a progressive church: 

1.       There is a lowered view of the Bible.

2.       Feelings are emphasized over facts.

3.       Essential Christian doctrines are open for re-interpretation. 

4.       Historic terms are re-defined. 

5.       The heart of the Gospel message shifts from sin and redemption to social justice. 

Identifying the signs of a progressive church is not always obvious—sometimes they are subtle and mixed with a lot of truth. Progressive Christianity can be persuasive and enticing, but carried out to its logical end, it is an assault on the foundational framework of Christianity, leaving it disarmed of its saving power.

Read John 14: 5 - 7, “Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me, you will know[a] my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”