Category: Emergent Church

DR. GARY GILLEY: THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL »

In the August 2007 article “What Did Paul Really Mean?”, which concerns this counterfeit view of the theology of the Apostle Paul Christianity Entropy Today magazine we read: For nearly 30 years, a number of theologians have argued for a “new perspective” on the apostle Paul and his doctrine of justification. Advocates of this approach […]

DAN KIMBALL AN EFFETE CHRISTIANITY IS NOTHING TO BE GAY ABOUT »

All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making […]

DOUG PAGITT AND GOD’S HOPES FOR THE WORLD? »

ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS THE PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF ANOTHER GOSPEL »

NATHAN WILLIAMS OF PULPIT MAGAZINE: BACK FROM MARS LED BY ROB BELL »

In a two part series over at Pulpit Magazine Nathan Williams fills us in his trip the Mars Hill Bible Church where Emerging Church icon Rob Bell is the teaching pastor: Anyone who has read blogs for any amount of time, has no doubt entered into a discussion, or at least read one on the […]

DR. GARY GILLEY REVIEW: “THE RAGAMUFFIN GOSPEL” BY BRENNAN MANNING »

Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to the following book review by my friend Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, IL. In addition Gilley also produces a fine series of ongoing articles called Think on These Things which deal with a wide range of important issues facing the Body of […]

WHOM WILL YOU SERVE BRENNAN MANNING? »

The Mush God of Mystical “Illumination”: [Jesus] said, GOD IS LOVE — period. But there is more to the message of Jesus. He insisted that His Father is crazy with love, that God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. (teacher of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, 171) […]

THE INNER JOURNEY TO APOSTASY WITH HENRI NOUWEN »

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful […]

HENRI NOUWEN SAYS… »

Jesus tells us — “For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned” (Matthew 12:37). With this in mind we now let the words of universalist Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) speak for themselves. Nouwen is so often quoted concerning so-called Spiritual Formation rooted in apostate Roman […]

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