McLaren’s friend, process/progessive theologian Dr. Philip Clayton, is among the progressive theologians helping to cobble it together e.g. through his Transforming Theology (TT) project. Another EC notable assisting would be the heretical Tony Jones, progressive theologian in residence at the church of universalist Emergent Church pastor Doug Pagitt, who contributes the foreword to Clayton’s latest book is Transforming Christian Theology. 

 

In fact it was Clayton, with an assist from his student/collaborator Tripp Fuller and Tony Jones, who put on the EC heresy-fest Theology After Google in order to encourage the Emerging Church to use the new social media as a way to advance this new big tent Christianity [read: universalism]. What follows is in reaction to my latest article concerning a HuffPost piece from a PSUSA pastrix by the name of Carol Howard Merritt, which I deconstruct in Why Evangelicalism Is Failing A New Generation, As Is The Emerging Church.

 

BrianMerritt, who is pastor of Palisades Community Church and Carol Howard Merrit’s husband, had tweeted earlier:  

For some reason this makes me think of Ken Silva: http://youtu.be/kMozp01yfXs (Online source) 

But, rather than dealing with anything I said in my artricle, instead pastor Merritt responds to Cervas with the foolish comment below:  

Despite my disagreement with his Rick Warren invite to DG 2010, I wouldn’t even begin to claim to be a scholar on the level of a Dr. John Piper. But next notice the typical ploy of these new loving and tolerant ones, just the same as their liberal forebears, to immediately marginalize any opposition by attempting to paint us as “haters”:  

Oh well. I guess the only way to deal with hate is prayer. Better add him to the prayer list. (Online source)

The only thing I hate is false doctrine; and I’m supposed to — hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it (Titus 1:9, ESV). And if the Emerging Church can use the new forms of social media to advance false doctrine then I have just as much right to rebuke those who do so. But here you need to consider that I’m not dealing with laymen as these are all actually pastors within the liberal/progressive PCUSA.

And finally, so often those who are caught in false doctrine piously pose before the world; and so accordingly, pastor Merritt tweets: 

Lord, give Ken Silva the peace that I desire. May he intensely know your love and peace. Help him to grow deeper in a knowledge of you. (Online source)

Well in return, I also sincerely pray to the Lord for Brian and Carol Howard Merrit: Jesus, please give them the peace that I have with You. May they intensely know Your love and peace. Help them to grow deeper in a knowledge of You.  However, the very vital issue that’s being missed in all of this new progressive Christianity is: Which Jesus are we praying to? Is it the Jesus of the historic, orthodox, Christian faith; or is it instead, another Jesus as preached by so-called liberal/progressive Christianity?