“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.”

“A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:15-20, ESV)

Once Upon A Time There Was No Emerging Church

Here’s is a short article that gets at the fetid root of this issue of the Emergent Church which is the new cult of liberal theology. Anyone even remotely following Apprising Ministries and my on-going in-depth analysis of this Emergent attack on the Bible will be aware of the grave spiritual danger toward which it is undoubtedly taking everyone who follows it. As a matter of fact I continue to be in direct dialogue with well known sources within the movement in order to better understand it.

And yes, we are well aware that, as “maybe I am, maybe I’m not” EC pastor Mark Driscoll puts it, “the more liberal-minded Emergent team, does not speak for every church in the ‘conversation.’ ” Just the same however, in his book A Generous Orthodoxy Emergent Guru Brian McLaren explains:

“In the late 1990’s, I was invited to become part of Leadership Network’s Young Leader Networks (YLN), also briefly known as the TerraNova Project. I was grandfathered in as the network’s ‘old guy,’...I met with Doug Pagitt to discuss our future plans.”

Please know that the discernment ministry Herescope has some excellent articles uncovering more about the real beginnings of the Emerging Church movement which is our main concern here.

Despite the fact that so many, many of the leaders and people in this movement have such a low view of Scripture (neo-orthodox), I will still show you from the Bible what the heart of the matter is. The involvement of men like Brian McLaren and Doug Pagitt, who have long ago left the faith, is the rotten and poisonous root from which this insurgence against Biblical authority mentioned originally sprang and it thus puts this movement in the category of “a diseased tree.”

And I am also sure there are sincere Christians involved in the Emergent Church who do wish to make church relevant to this definitely pagan but alleged “postmodern” nation. However, the truth is that if you are Emergent then you’ve already fallen for two main lies. The first is) That those of us who preach the Bible don’t make any attempt to make the Gospel somewhat relative to our culture. And the second is) This idea of postmodernism itself; it is simply an artificial category of philosophy today which one chooses to believe in. It is actually relativism.

But regardless, the historic witness from the Bible itself tells us in our opening text that Christ Jesus of Nazareth said: “A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.” Today I strongly urge those of you who are among the above sincere Christians following Emergent Hollow Men like Rob Bell to humbly ask the Jesus you say you follow what the Lord means by the statement I just quoted. And then let Him lead you away from this seditious Emergent rebellion against the Word of the one true and living God.