The Blood of the Lamb-silly

This really happened in my "drifting rapidly into emergent/liberal Protestantism" church. We had a guest speaker from Intervarsity. This used to be a wonderful organization but recently I am hearing really weird stuff about parts of it. Also, a lot of the emergent books have been published by Intervarsity Press (IVP). Well, after our guest speaker I can believe Intervarsity is in trouble. He blathered on like they all do today about how we used to evangelize with bad news (I guess he meant things like God's wrath and hell), but today he has discovered the "good news" to tell others. The good news of course never mentions the cross or what Jesus did there. At least he never mentioned it. The "good news" is that God loves us....Period. I would submit to you that people cannot get born again from that "gospel." Then he went into the usual, "secular society today doesn't understand Christianese terms" routine, like you know (he slightly laughed-smirked) the Blood of the Lamb, to which 1/2 of my church congregation laughed. I was stunned.....and terribly grieved in my spirit. Reverence anyone? What he should have said was the secular society doesn't understand many of the Bible terms. These aren't terms that "we (fundamentalists I guess)" use. We got them from somewhere. We didn't just make these terms up from out of the air. What should have been done was to use the Biblical terms but explain them for, and in, a non-Christian context - not dump the terms and then laugh ourselves silly.