Category: Emergent Church
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 27, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
In this September 26, 2009 piece at Boston.com referenced below Michael Paulson shares some of his phone interview with Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence Christianity: Rob Bell is one of the hottest names in contemporary evangelical life. He is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but is better […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 26, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
…and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you; But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. (Romans 8:8-9, NASB) Turning The Truth Into Mythology In posts like […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 25, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has reminded you a few times now about the next EC conference, an apostasy-fest called Christianity 21 (C 21), which is called coming up October 9-11. C 21 will be put on by JoPa Productions, the company formed by heretical theologian Tony Jones and his equally heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt. The dubious duo of Jones and Pagitt are highly influential within the egregiously ecumenical Emerging […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 24, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has reminded you a few times now about the next EC conference, an apostasy-fest called Christianity 21 (C 21), which is called coming up October 9-11. C 21 will be put on by JoPa Productions, the company formed by heretical Emerging Church theologian Tony Jonesand his equally heretical quasi-universalist Emergent Church pastor Doug Pagitt. AM has also previously pointed out Jo-Pa have informed us that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 24, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
In Did ELCA Pastrix Nadia Bolz-Weber Just Call Jesus “A Schmuck”? I reminded our many new readers, particularly those who’ve come to Apprising Ministries because of our coverage of the recent tragic vote mortally wounding the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), that AM has long been maintaining Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy. The main reason for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
With pleasure Apprising Ministries brings to your attention the below segment of the fine Issues, Etc. radio program. In it host Todd Wilken interviews Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough of the Fighting For The Faith program, which is heard on his Pirate Christian Radio network. Rosebrough had just returned from attending an Emergent Village Gathering honoring Christian Universalist Jurgen Moltmann called Theological […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
To the Teaching and to the Testimony! If they will not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, ESV) Strange Bedfellows Come Emerging We continue with our examination of the oxymoron that would be/is Brian McLaren and “evangelical” panentheism, and just how this might shed some light on rather […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Today over at his blog EdStetzer.com: A Lifeway Research Blog in Bluegrass and Contextualization in Taiwan missiologist and President of Lifeway Research (SBC) Dr. Ed Stetzer shares: One of the funny elements in my video interview with Pastor Chen included a reference to a Bluegrass concert (he calls it Greengrass in the video). Phil Johnson (of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This is a bit of a follow up piece to the Apprising Ministries article Emerging Church Feminist Pastrix Julie Clawson. For the benefit of our many new readers, as far back as November 2005 I’m on record as calling this egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—a cult within evangelical Christianity. In […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries points you to an interesting piece concerning emerging church philosopher/theologian Peter Rollins Darling Of Emergence Christianity by my friend John Chisham, pastor of River of Life Alliance Church and fellow Christian Research Net contributor. For those who’ve actually listened to Peter Rollins, which you can do for example in Adele Sakler And Peter Rollins, you’ll know that the picture to the left […]
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