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I wrote it because the Christian world for me is no longer as life-bearing as it once was. In fact, much of it is downright toxic.&#8221; Alan Jones is not alone in his disenchantment with Christianity nor, apparently, does he comprehend the source of his confusion. There are many today who call themselves Christian and many with them who would not call themselves Christian, and all of them together are milling around in and out of seeker-friendly churches, mega-churches, purpose driven churches, emergent churches, and every kind of liberal church that does not present the Gospel. Neither do such churches worship God in spirit and in truth nor preach the Bible faithfully so that these poor folk might properly understand Who God is, what He requires of them, and what provision He has made for them. These are potentially <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/alanjones.htm\">Alan Jones&#8217;<\/a> audience. Their lostness and their ignorance make them especially vulnerable. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-highway.com\/reimagining_Bennett.html\">Click here to read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Berean Beacon Ministries\u00a0 Anglican&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progressive-emerging-church","wpcat-25-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alan Jones&#039; Reimagining Christianity: the Way Back to Rome - From the Lighthouse<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/alan-jones-reimagining-christianity-the-way-back-to-rome\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alan Jones&#039; 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