There is an important question that “haunts Christianity” which Emergent leader Tony Jones asked his blog community today: What Are We Being Saved From? Often when I ask this question to people who say they are saved, they cannot give me an answer. To most evangelical Christians, their answer would be hell, but there is…
Category: Emergent Church
Emergent: Helping or Hindering the Kingdom of God
The Gospel According to Jesus Brian McLaren, the prolific writer and Emergent Church guru, recalls being asked what the Gospel is according to Jesus and not having a suficient answer. A “well-known Evangelical theologian” then turned McLaren’s attention to the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. McLaren recalls: My lunch mate was a well-know Evangelical…
Church of Tares: Purpose Driven, Seeker-Sensitive, Church Growth & New World Order
Can the Church borrow the marketing tools of the world and apply them to the Church? What is the history of the Church Growth movement and its false premises? Who is involved in the new evangelicalism and second reformation? Why are these movements embracing contemplative mysticism? How does this movement play into the New World Order?…
Emergent Leader Brian McLaren Leads Ceremony of Son’s Homosexual Marriage
The New York Times states: Trevor Douglas McLaren and Owen Patrick Ryan were married Saturday in Washington. Guy Cecil, the executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a Universal Life minister, officiated at the couple’s apartment. Later in the day, the Rev. Brian D. McLaren, Mr. McLaren’s father and the former pastor of…