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1 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | MJH | 177170 | ||
Does anyone have an opinion on the so called, "Emergent Church?" I ask because I happen to attend a church that when I join was simply another church which happened to grow very fast, had a gifted teacher, etc... But nothing spectacular. Since then, over the past few years, the gifted teacher has become very well know, almost an icon in the so called "Emergent Church" movement, although he has never claimed that our church was an "Emergent Church." Needless to say (unfortunately) he has been attacked by several Pastors around the country. My stance among those I meet is that I am not responsible for defending my pastor or church against comments. I will talk and listen, but I am not ever going to get "defensive" and try to argue for a point. I will clarify and ask why they think what they think, but I won't get drawn into an argument. It has bothered me, however, to see that so far every critic I have read or heard has gone to the level of revering to my pastor as "Satan’s agent" or "a clear Heretic" etc... Not one critic I have read so far has refrained from using such vitriolic statements which I interpret as meaning they are so afraid that their critic isn't strong enough on content that they have to use stupid statements to try and reinforce their ideas. One pastor even stated that since my pastor's following was so large, he obviously was not of God and used the same argument to refute Rev. Billy Graham. I’d love to discuss this topic with some of you, since I have anonymity here, and I would like to know what gifted people like you all think. MJH |
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2 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177231 | ||
MJH - The term "emerging (or emergent) church" is oxymoronic. The only time in history that the church of Jesus Christ can be said to have emerged (in the sense of "to become manifest") was on the Day of Pentecost as recorded in Acts 2. Your question has drawn a number of responses, but the subject is really too complex to be given anything approaching exhaustive treatment here. ..... I've done a considerable amount of reading on this "Emergent Church Movement" over the week-end and am prepared to posit that in general the movement, which is a brand of post-modernism, has a low view of Scripture and is not biblical on soteriology and eschatology. In my research efforts I came across an excellent article on the movement by Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. What follows are two links, the first to the article "What Should We Think of the Emerging Church?, Part 1, and the second link to Part 2 of the article. http://www.christianpost.com/article/20050629/6355.htm -- and -- http://www.christianpost.com/article/20050630/6356.htm Anyone interested in learning more about this movement should read this article. --Hank | ||||||
3 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 177242 | ||
Dear Brother Hank, J. I. Packer wrote, "A much traveled leader, a native American (be it said), has declared that he finds North American Protestantism, man-centered, manipulative, success-oriented, self-indulgent, sentimental, as it blatantly is, to be 3,000 miles wide and half an inch deep." It is to be feared that the Emergent Church intends reducing the depth by at least an order of magnitude. I appreciate your comments and the articles you have cited. In Him, Doc |
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4 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 177244 | ||
Doc, if the Emergent Church Movement and others of a similar stripe keep whittling away at that fragile one-half inch crust....what, I ask rhetorically, will remain? ..... Yet when, in despair, I bow my head, the words of our Lord flood my soul and afford me blessed surcease of sorrow: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away" (Mark 13:31). Trouble invariably comes about when men who would aspire to follow Christ forget two things: That the Bible is the authoritative, inerrant and plenary word of God, and that God is absolutely sovereign. ...... But man so easily forgets that God is sovereign and makes himself the center of his own private universe, including the organism he calls the church. But a man wrapped up in himself makes a small package. --Hank | ||||||
5 | Emergent Church question | Bible general Archive 3 | DocTrinsograce | 177245 | ||
Amen... it is sad but well said. | ||||||