WHY WOULD THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION EMBRACE THE EMERGENT CHURCH?


To those who sold doves [Jesus] said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market!” (John 2:16)

A Little Leaven Leaveneth The Whole Lump

What will follow below is a great example of the poisoned fruit of the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church. Leaders within Southern Baptist Convention, as well as Directors of Missions and local pastors, are right now becoming more and more willing to embrace the corrupt teachings of these despicable compromisers and spiritual sissies of this antichrist movement. By doing so they are allowing this Emergent rebellion against the Bible to blatantly attack the historic orthodox Christian faith right in their own SBC churches!

Take a closer look at Open Letter To Dr. Frank Page and Southern Baptist Convention Embracing Gnostic Mysticism. In fact in the feedback section where the piece on Dr. Page appears at Christian Worldview Network one commenter put it, “All I think Dr. Page is saying is, ‘I see this generation of young people going to Hell, and I want to use the Bible and relevant (sic) methodologies to get them back!’ ”

My reply was that I do believe Dr. Page is saying this and I’m telling anyone who will listen that he is absolutely dead wrong if he–or anyone else–thinks this is what the Emergent Church, the new cult of liberalism, is actually doing. This anti-Reformational movement is not of God. Instead it is a blatant and brazen attack on the doctrines of grace–most specifically sola Scriptura and the vicarious penal substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ on the Cross.

This follow up to The Consecration of Spiritual Energy serves as a wake up call to those who still have ears that hear. You had best see this counterfeit “Christianity” of so-called spiritual formation for what it is and you’d best decide–and quickly–just which side of the fence you are to land on. Know this, the LORD God Almighty is about to blow you completely off your comfortable “speak-out-of-both-sides-of-your-mouth” new evangelical religion of fence-straddling.

So hear what the Lord says – “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of My mouth” (Revelation 3:16, KJV). The letter to follow, which I received today, shows the reeducation process those who would welcome the Emergent Church are willing to embrace. While another kind reeducation process into the human potential movement is welcomed into other sections of the Southern Baptist Convention. Consider On Target Evangelism sponsored by The California Southern Baptist Convention and featuring Ken Blanchard and Emergent SBC “cultural architect” [aka lead pastor] Erwin McManus.

Telling Them What They Want To Hear

The question is: Why would the Southern Baptist Convention possibly want to embrace the antibiblical and anti-Reformational Emergent Church? Do you still think those of us on the wall who are desperately warning you about Satan’s bold advancement further into evangelicalism and into the SBC itself are actually “off the wall”? Then listen carefully as the wanton words of shameless heretic Brian McLaren and the cotton candy spiritual cyanide of Rob Bell combine to come hissing from the mouth of one of their female Emergent Church cultists:

The Emergent church saved my faith. I would not be a Christian today at all, if it weren’t for men of God like Brian Mclaren and Rob Bell. I was about to walk away from the christian faith because of Christians like you. You may not realize it but you sound so hateful, judgemental and prideful. Do you understand that people are leaving churches, and your Christianity in droves because of how people like you act?

Don’t you care? Are you so blind that you don’t see that your stream of Christianity is “the yeast of the Pharisees”? Jesus came to break legalism and you have constructed a new set of beliefs, that are just as rule centered as the old testament law?

What Bible Fundamentalists [notice where the attack is focused] like you never do, is search out the historical and cultural context in the bible. You read the bible literally from our place in time, and our built in cultural understandings. You don’t realize how biased you are, everyone is biased. Genre is also very important in understanding the intent of biblical writings.

Each author had a different intent within that genre of writing, some is poetry, some satire etc. the intent would of (sic) been obvious to the audience in that culture, in that time. We really do the text an injustice when we read the text literally without understanding what the author intended. Fundamentalists don’t approach the text of the bible, open to what history may teach them about what the text means.

We should all seek God in humility, realizing we can attempt to understand him to the best of our abilities, but it is an attempt. We are not all knowing, because we are human, not God. When im unsure of where I may stand on a givin issue, I err on the side of love. Dont forget what Jesus said was the greatest commandment.

It makes me sad to read your website, you are giving Jesus a very bad name.

May God Bless you,
I hope you find what you are looking for one day….