The following look at the Emergence Christianity of pastor Rob Bell is from Rob Bell’s Abstract “Elvis”: A Critique of Velvet Elvis by Christian apologist Bob DeWaay:  In historical Christian theology, the inerrant Bible interpreted according to a valid hermeneutic that sought to know the Biblical author’s meaning was the standard “picture” of the real thing. […]

The Kansas City Star tells us, in this story, that “Former President Jimmy Carter” is trying to lead unsuspecting Baptists “in search” of compromised Christianity oops, make that “common ground”: He’s coming to Kansas City next week to push forward his efforts to unify Baptists, who tenaciously hold to both their faith and their freedom… “We are […]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) A Master Story-Teller With His Sleepy Bed-Time Stories To Hit The […]

Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to the following from Dr. John MacArthur on what is now developing into a postliberal cult of Emergence Christianity. The following is excerpted from an interview conducted by Phil Johnson of Pyromaniacs with MacArthur concerning this Emerging Church rebellion against Sola Scriptura and appears as What’s So Dangerous About The Emerging Church?: PHIL: […]

The following look at the Emergence Christianity of pastor Rob Bell is from Rob Bell’s Abstract “Elvis”: A Critique of Velvet Elvis by Bob DeWaay, pastor of  Twin City Fellowship:  In Velvet Elvis, Bell asserts that all people are already forgiven, reconciled, without having to respond to the Gospel in the manner Jesus said in […]

As pointed out in the Apprising Ministries post Emergence Pastor Rob Bell To Have Friend Peter Rollins In Conference this July pastor Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence, will be featuring his “friend” Peter Rollins in Bell’s upcoming pastors conference. In fact, Bell refers to Rollins as “one of the freshest voices” that he’s heard in this Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura, whose basic […]

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. (Colossians 2:8) Don’t Believe Everything You Read In Books From Authors Of Emergence Christianity In the segment below from Fighting for the Faith Chris Rosebrough, of […]

Interesting how the following words circa 1960 from A.W. Tozer actually fit quite well concerning the so-called new reformation of Emergence Christianity and its rebellion against Sola Scriptura: (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) (Acts 17:21) The temptation to […]

[P]ierced through, and there accompanies this thought usually that of a piercing through unto death. Perhaps there is also included the idea of a violent death. The thought is that because we had transgressed, he was pierced through unto the death. The parallel expression, crushed because of our iniquities, means that because we had done […]

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. […]