Pastor MacArthur explained that the current utopian philosophies that the west is embracing began 300 years ago with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and those were imbibed by Marx and other influential thinkers who hated God and viewed Christianity as oppressive…. He explained how contemporary evangelicalism has incorporated these in their strategies of church building [pragmatism… which is unbiblical because it derives from man… and the Bible states in Acts that ‘God is building His church’]
