Willing to be Lost and Searching Rather Than Accept the Gospel According to Jesus Christ
July 8th, 2005 - PBS' Religion & Ethics Weekly has just released a news story on the emerging church movement. The story shows how far this movement's leaders are willing to go to bring a whole generation into their emergence. These leaders are compromising the gospel and keeping thousands of young people from hearing the true message of salvation.
The underlying foundation of the emerging church is New Age mysticism. With labyrinths, yoga, chanting and meditating, the emerging church is helping to unite all the world's religious traditions.
The three emerging church leaders featured in the PBS story, Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, and Tony Jones, speak of a new Christianity: Doug Pagitt - "When people discover we are a church with a yoga class ... they sometimes assume that we're simply out to appeal to the cultural creatives and the neo-hippies." (p. 53, Reimagining Spiritual Formation)
Brian McLaren: Endorsing the back cover of Alan Jones' book, Reimagining Christianity, which says the doctrine of the Cross is a vile doctrine.
Tony Jones, author of Soul Shaper:"The first time I introduced this, the kids came in, and I had a candle going and a little incense burning and some Gregorian chant music on the CD player."
You may view a video clip of this story at their web site. You won't believe what you see!
PBS Airs Part II of the Emerging Church
See the Egyptian god symbol used in the "sanctuary" at the 25 second mark of this video.
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In McLaren's own words:
Pastor MCLAREN: "If we see this thing turn into something that has real implications for health and well-being in our world, that to me has a lot of the feel of God's will being done on earth as it is in heaven, which is something all of us Christians pray for."
He describes it as "this thing".
It's a thing all right. It's a thing that comes from the pit of Hell, a place he doesn't want to acknowledge even exists.
The Bible says that God doesn't want any to perish. That's why he sent His only begotten Son to die on a cross, so that whosoever would believe in Him would not perish, but have Eternal Life.
That Eternal Life is with God, in His kingdom; not something that has real implications for health and well-being in our world!
"Salvation" is the cause, Mr. McClaren, not works. Works is the effect.
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