Dear All,
Many churches are adopting the Emerging Church model without really knowing what is being taught by its leadership. They do not recognize the Universalism, pantheism, New Age and eastern mysticism that is leavened in. In a rush to be relevant to postmodern culture they forget that postmodernism is a worldview that is not biblical. Instead of catering to postmodernism they should be discipling this generation to a biblical paradigm. EC proponents are quick to point out the ways in which dead churches are dead. But the solution they propose is far worse than the problems they say they will solve.
Why churches feel pressured to get involved with New Age practices and teachings is beyond me. People need to see a difference in Christians, not the same worldly ideas they can get from reading "The Secret" or "The Shack". We adopt a new culture when we are born again which is laid out in the Bible by the Jesus Christ, the Apostles and prophets. In order to be light and salt to the world we must demonstrate by our words and actions that we no longer subscribe to the vain philosophies and worldviews of this world, but that we have been transformed.
Rom 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
In Christ,
Sandy Simpson
Apologetics Coordination Team
http://www.apologeticscoordinationteam.com/
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