The first is convincing people that it exists. Increasingly, fundamentalist American Christians have demanded a return to a male-centered church leadership and home life. Women aren't allowed to be ministers in the Southern Baptist Churches, and they aren't allowed to be Priests in the Catholic Church either. But the liberal Christian stands firm in saying, women are equal partners in Church leadership . Thus, biblical authority does not rest in the 'inerrancy' of scriptures, but on their appropriateness to the gospel.
Liberals do indeed believe that sin is real .
It is known in human brokenness and division. Thus the typical Christian obsession with particular sins has less to do with Christ than it does with culture. No issue is more divisive in contemporary Christianity than the issue of the place of homosexuality . This four part argument for full inclusion and participation of open and practicing homosexuals in our Christian churches is by far the most controversial piece on this site. What matters is not the genital type of your partner, but the substance of your spirit.