Articles What The Emerging Church is About
Definition, What It is About, Important Elements, The Pioneers of the Movement. The Leaders
What The Pioneers of The Emerging Church Think, Say And Who They Endorse. Hip New Churches Pray to a Different Drummer
Called "emerging" or "postmodern" churches, they are diverse in theology and method, linked loosely by Internet sites, Web logs, conferences and a growing stack of hip-looking paperbacks. Some religious historians believe the churches represent the next wave of evangelical worship, after the boom in mega churches in the 1980's and 1990's. Three Essential Concerns Regarding the Emerging Church
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. First, I will raise three areas of concern Evangelicals should focus most of their attention as they assess both the Emerging Church movement (hereafter ECM) and Emergent Village (hereafter EV). Specifically, I will point to some examples of what three prominent EV leaders say regarding each. The Kingdom of Emergent Theology
The Emerging Church’s distortion of the kingdom of God, its effect on the gospel and what Scripture teaches about the kingdom of God Revival or Return To Darkness?
While Rick Warren, Dan Kimball and Dr. Robert Webber and others may be excited about the “Emerging Church” and the direction it is presently headed, I am concerned the “Emerging Church” may actually be a re-emergence of what has already occurred in church history. It seems that the “Emerging Church” is reemerging. Tather than going back to the inspired Word of God found in the Old and New Testaments, the goal is to reintroduce an “Ancient-Future” faith based on the ideas, dogmas, traditions and views of the Roman Catholic Church Fathers. Another Road To Rome
The common denominator being promoted is the idea that the time has come for Christianity to be reinvented for our generation. In order to do so, the church must provide the environment and the experiences to attract people. Christianity, the Emerging Church promoters say, must become relevant to our postmodern generation. No longer does reason or God’s Word hold the answers to life’s questions. Experience must become the key factor to encounter spiritual reality. The Emerging Church road to Rome will become more obvious day by day for those who accept the warnings found in Scripture. Statement of Faith Would be “Disastrous”
Regardless of what the Bible clearly states, what matters most is inclusiveness and tolerance; and so, within Emergent, whenever they come across a biblical teaching which is exclusive or judgmental, that teaching is either flatly ignored or redefined and neutered through their lenses of postmodern inclusiveness and tolerance. This is why a statement of faith would be “disastrous”. Also.. Tony Jones is one of the leading lights of the Emergent Church movement in making and disseminating materials for youth pastors and youth groups, yet testimony shows that he is still fumbling in the darkness of unbelief. The 2004 Emergent Convention
Excerpts from The Emergent matrix: a new kind of church? by Scott Bader-Saye A Generous Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy must be generous, but it cannot be so generous that it ceases to be orthodox. We are not faced with an endless array of doctrinal variants from which we can pick and choose. Homosexuality either will or will not be embraced as normative. The church either will or will not accept a radical revisioning of the missionary task. We will either see those who have not come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ as persons to whom we should extend a clear gospel message and a call for decision, or not. The Emerging Church And Bible Prophecy
While the term “Emerging Church” may be new, the ideas being promoted by the Emerging Church can be understood by the warnings we find in the Bible regarding an end times counterfeit bride that will prepare the way for a counterfeit christ. How to Know When the Emerging Church Shows Signs of Emerging in Your Church
There are specific warning signs that are symptomatic that a church may be headed down the emergent/contemplative road. In some cases a pastor may not be aware that he is on this road nor understand where the road ends up. Also See Sections Contemplative Spirituality And Centering Prayer There is an increasing number of professing evangelicals involved who, under normal circumstances, would have nothing to do with the Church of Rome, but who, wittingly or unwittingly are caught up in mystical practices (or at least advocating such practices) which are either a direct legacy of Roman Catholic mysticism or are a deceptive derivative of it. The twentieth century, which has seen so many revolutions, is now witnessing the rise of a new mysticism within Christianity. Contemplative or Centering Prayer is a practice derived from Eastern mysticism. Precious biblical concepts like God's grace and love are actually replaced by vague notions of wholeness through an eastern religious meditation technique. Centering Prayer is drawn from ancient prayer practices of the Christian contemplative heritage, notably the Fathers and Mothers of the Desert, Lectio Divina, (praying the scriptures), The Cloud of Unknowing, St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila.. But the question is ‘Can we find God or enhance our experience of Jesus by entering into an altered state of consciousness?’ | 
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