Category: Brian McLaren
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 27, 2011 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Thank you to Eric Barger for pointing out this story. Writer Brian McLaren, who is often identified as an evangelical (even though he rejects the central tenet of Christianity, Christ’s atoning death on the Cross, and calls it “false advertising for God”), will be one of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 29, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has been maintaining that Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy because of its ongoing embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church with its postmodern Progressive Christian theology, which these rebels against the final authority of the Word of God will often [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker, Jim Wallis, Peter Rollins, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the damage that’s been done by evangelicalism’s embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church—with its “big tent” Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. By using warped and toxic teachings of EC leaders like Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell the mainstream of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. (1 Corinthians 10:20) If You Love Someone You’ll Tell Them The Truth Apprising Ministries has been warning you about the judgments coming upon the church visible now that mainstream evangelicalism [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has been warning you about the judgments coming upon the church visible now that mainstream evangelicalism has embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church. I’ve also told you that EC progressive/liberal theologians such as Dr. Philip Clayton of the Transforming Theology network and Tony Jones, heretical “theologian in residence” at the church of his equally heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 26, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (Psalm 50:21) Men Said, “Let Us Make God In Our Image.” Some people just don’t get it. Apprising Ministries has been making you aware of the now upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 with [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker, Youth Ministry
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ… These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear. (Jude 4, 12) Heading Toward An Already Foregone [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Bibliology, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Henri Nouwen, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker, Jim Wallis, Leonard Sweet, Marcus Borg, New Spirituality, Peter Rollins, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Robert Schuller, Roman Catholicism, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Shane Hipps, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
First, it is necessary to understand what sola Scriptura does and does not assert. The Reformation principle of sola Scriptura has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme authority in all spiritual matters. Sola Scriptura simply means that all truth necessary for our salvation and spiritual life is taught either explicitly or implicitly in [...]
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