Category: Brian McLaren
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!
Well, in what follows we get the quasi-universalism of the all-inclusive Emerging Church aka Emergent Church now morphing into Emergence Christianity version of it anyway:
For a lot of Christians of all stripes, the first question that comes to mind when we think of people of other faiths is about them … are they in or out, going to heaven [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Quotes, Rick Warren, Robert Schuller
I’ve said this many times: I can listen to a guy preach—put anybody in front of me—and I’ll tell you what his view of Scripture is by what he says. If he doesn’t preach out of the Bible, I know what his view of Scripture is, I don’t care what he says. I don’t care [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 24, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. (Luke 17:1)
Brian McLaren Leave The Judging To Jesus And Get Your Own Emergent House In Order
Yesterday in a not so veiled promotion piece for something called Bridge the Gap Brian McLaren, a head Guru [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features, Marcus Borg
In this short piece Apprising Ministries now draws to your attention one of the reasons why the postliberal cult of Emergence Christianity, being championed e.g. by Guru Brian McLaren and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, is actually embracing the world at the expence of the exclusive Gospel of God. Thinking people need to ask themselves: Why are these Emerging leaders working [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
The following is a book review of Finding Our Way Again: The Return To The Ancient Practices by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, and is reprinted here at Apprising Ministries with permission:
Brian McLaren, the most recognizable name in the emergent church movement, signals a shift, or at least a new emphasis within emergent, toward ancient practices of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 5, 2008 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Henri Nouwen, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, New Spirituality, Richard Abanes, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Robert Schuller, Roman Catholicism, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, T.D. Jakes, Theology, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones
A man-centered gospel is the belief that the determining factor in whether or not a man is eternally saved, in the end, relies (at some level) upon an act of his own will i.e. human decision. This is often called synergism because it is thought to be a cooperative effort between God and man. While [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
So does leading theologian in the Emerging Church and influential evangelical teacher Brian McLaren, really think that God—through Muhammad—founded the idolatrous pagan religion of Islam, which denies the Deity of Christ Jesus?
Decide for yourself; the following is from McLaren’s book Finding Our Way Again:
Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have more in common than many people realize because they all share [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 26, 2008 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues
Below our friends and brothers in arms at A Little Leaven: The Museum of Idolatry presents a clip of Brian McLaren, a leading theologian in the Emergent Church the cult of the postliberal theology, from an appearance on a podcast hosted by one of his disciples named Leif Hanson.
Apprising Ministries encourages you to listen carefully to [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 26, 2008 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NASB)
Talking Loud But Saying Absolutely Nothing That Will Convert [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Features, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
At Apprising Ministries you will likely hear me talking more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into postevangelicalism from its den in the Emerging Church. The fact is this neopagan Gnostic spirituality is most pointedly on display in the misguided mysticism of the Emergent Church with its reimagined postliberal theology. [...]
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