PETER ROLLINS AND EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY OPENING EVANGELICAL DOOR TO PRACTICING HOMOSEXUAL “CHRISTIANS”

From the Apprising Ministries outreach Christian Research Net:

This is not at all intended to be harmful personally toward the one maintaining the blog The Sweet Bi and Bi, who happens to be a self-proclaimed “child of G-d” practicing a bisexual lifestyle, which includes homosexuality. Rather, this is highly illustrative of the negative, and eternally harmful, effects that Emergence Christianity is now bringing upon such people.

People, who are in willful sin, and yet as evidenced by the links on their blog rolls, are still being convinced by professing Christian men like Peter Rollins, a friend of Rob Bell, and by Tony Jones, as well as others who are just as deceived, that one can be a practicing homosexual and have God’s “blessing” upon such anti-biblical behavior.

May such repent, now, before it’s too late…

And in the meanwhile how is it we should approach those who would be willful in their sin and disregard of God’s clear condemnation of the practice of homosexuality yet making the claim that they are indeed Christians? Arthur Pink’s thoughts from Love Reproving are helpful in establishing a proper balance as opposed to the gross distortion of love perpetrated by the Emergence rebellion against sola Scriptura, whose mythical mystic mush god has a man-shaped hole in its heart:

Is it possible to be too critical of Christians? It is certainly possible to expect too much from them—and then be irritated because they fail to produce what we look for. If our thoughts be governed by Scripture, which declares, “We all stumble in many ways” (James 3:2); if we bear in mind the frailties—some of them glaring ones—of the most eminent characters mentioned in the Word; if we constantly remind ourselves of how far short we come of the standard God has set before us—then we ought to be preserved from looking for anything approaching perfection in Christians. They too are men and women of “like passions” as ourselves. Hence the force of “bearing with one another in love” (Eph 4:2); yet that must not be twisted into “winking at one another’s faults” or condoning sin—under the pretense of love.

No, we cannot “always tell” whether a professing Christian is a regenerate or unregenerate person, and therefore it behooves us to be cautious and conservative, lest we be guilty of giving that which is holy—unto dogs (Matt 7:6). It is a very serious and solemn matter to encourage a deluded soul in his deception, as we do when we lead him to believe that we regard him as a Christian. But how is this to be avoided? By a withholding the tokens of fellowship; for example, refusing to address as “Brother” or “Sister” —from all whom we stand in doubt of, especially from those whose walk is manifestly worldly and contrary to the precepts of Scripture. While we cannot read the hearts of those we mix with—we can test their outward life by the Word, and if its general tenor is opposed to the requirements of holiness, and is contrary to the example of Christ—we certainly are not warranted in regarding them as children of God. (Online source)

See also:

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY SOON TO PUT FORTH A GAY FACE

EMERGENCE PASTOR ROB BELL TO HAVE FRIEND PETER ROLLINS IN CONFERENCE

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE NEW AGE

EMERGENT CHURCH THEOLOGIAN TONY JONES AND HIS UNREPENTANT HOMOSEXUAL CHRISTIANS

APPRISING MINISTRIES: SHOCKING NEW EVIDENCE JESUS CONDEMNED THE PRACTICE OF HOMOSEXUALITY

Christianity and Homosexuality

“Presbyterian” Lesbian Tries Again for Ordination