Category: Emergent Church
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2010 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries told you in The Emerging Church TransFORM East Coast Apostasia-Palooza I told you about this latest heresy-fest of the neo-liberal cult of the upgraded Emergent Church 2.0 that kicked off today. Our source inside TransFORM tells me that if the Emerging Church is dead, the hundreds in the packed-out place “missed the memo.” Here’s the opening video concerning “theologies” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 28, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 3, ESV) Jay Bakker Gets Ready For Prime Time Over this past year Apprising Ministries has been […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 28, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This is a brief follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Emerging Church Theologian Leonard Sweet To Speak At Pastor Skip Heitzig’s Calvary Chapel Church where I linked to New Age Sympathizer Leonard Sweet To Speak at Pastor Skip Heitzig’s Calvary Chapel Church from Lighthouse Trails Research. There we’re told: This coming June, Calvary Chapel Albuquerque (a veteran Calvary […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 27, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. (2 Timothy 4:2, ESV) Don’t Look Now But The Biblical Wheels Have Come Off In the Apprising Ministries post Gay Christian Singer Jennifer Knapp Out On Larry King Live I reminded you that there is indeed a same-sex storm […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 25, 2010 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For those who hate the proper Christian spirituality of Sola Scriptura Emerging Church planter Jamie Arpin-Ricci, inner city pastor, Fransciscan, and missional practioner, tweets a favorite Emergent Church red herring : “The Bible is perfectly clear on that topic” can all too often be code for “This is what I believe & there is no room for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
In The Progressive Resurrection Of Rob Bell here at Apprising Ministries I discussed his spoken word presentation in the recent video Resurrection. The truth is, I’ve long been covering the drift of Rob Bell, the rock star Elvis of the Emerging Church, and its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. And in pieces like Through Rob Bell “The Great Enlightened […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has recently told you about The Emerging Church TransFORM East Coast Apostasia-Palooza where the upgraded Emerging Church 2.0—seeker driven for the “counter-culture”— will share its newer, more clearly delineated, Progressive Christian theology with a gospel Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough has referred to as: Stick it to the Caesar man. It’s all kind of a reimagined bohemian hippie counter-culture deal I would see as I was […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
As you’ll see e.g. in the Apprising Ministries article Big Tent Progressive Christianity As Liberalism 2.0, rather than dying, we’re going to be dealing with the upgraded Emerging Church 2.0—a neo-liberal cult—with a newer, more clearly delineated, Progressive Christian theology. It’s like I pointed out last time, the original Emergent Church was actually a full-on attack against the old cult of liberalism […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 21, 2010 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This is a little bit of a follow up to the Apprising Ministries article Missing Memo On The Death Of The Emerging Church? Although some may see this as a sign of the beginning of the Apocalypse I actually agree with Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren when he says, “In my view, reports of the […]
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