Category: Emergent Church
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to the following yesterday by heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, a leading voice ‘round the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and who were originally propped up and advanced by Leadership Network (LN). The EC, now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism, was actually a part of LN’s planned take-over of the visible church. My […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 15, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
[They’re] always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth (2 Timothy 3:7, NASB). That last phrase is so very telling; always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. That is a perfect description of the times in which we live, number one, but think about […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:35-36) All Religions Do Not Lead To God While pointing us to John Hendryx from the fine Reformation Theology and his comments concerning a “recent Time Magazine article on Christians and tolerance” a while back Ingrid Schlueter, host of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
With pleasure Apprising Ministries now points you to an excellent, and insightful, piece called Village Idiots by Phil Johnson, who blogs at the well-respected Pyromaniacs, and is also Executive Director of John MacArthur’s Grace to You. Johnson begins: Emergent Village is collapsing on itself. The EV Weblog, once a busy and heavily-trafficked stream of Emergent semi-consciousness […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 11, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB) Birds Of A Foul Feather […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
…knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV) Putting The Bible On Trial Awaiting Execution Apprising Ministries has been warning you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
In his post An Open Letter to YouthWorks Tony Jones, heretical “theologian in residence” at the emerging church Solomon’s Porch, gives a bit of history concerning YS: Let me join the chorus of voices welcoming Tic Long back to Youth Specialties, now part of the YouthWorks world. Tic was nothing but gracious to me over my ten years […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
HT: Need God As I mentioned in Will Rob Bell Jump Now? men like heretical quasi-universalist Emergence Christianity (EC) pastor Doug Pagitt, along with his partner in spiritual crime—his equally heretical “theologian in residence” Tony Jones, are absolutely not simply stating the historic orthodox Christian faith in a way understandable to today’s postmodern generation. No, what Pagitt, his friend Rob Bell, and others […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This is a bit of a follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Trouble In Emerging Church Paradise?, which involves what Tony Jones, the heretical “theologian in residence” at the EC church of his equally heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, says in Tony Jones: Stop Performing (Legal) Marriages! You’ll recall e.g. in Tony Jones And Courtney Perry Et Al I told you that Jones and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
The above was designed as a little reductio ad absurdum by Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough, host of the Fighting for the Faith (FftF) program, which can be heard on the Pirate Christian Radio network at 6PM Eastern time. With this all in mind, below Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to an excellent deconstruction of the warped and […]
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