Category: Brian McLaren

BRIAN MCLAREN SPEAKS AS A UNIVERSALIST »

As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:9) How Is A Different Gospel Now Considered The Same Gospel? Apprising Ministries has long been covering the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church—a [...]

BIG TENT CHRISTIANITY IS A POSTMODERN PROGRESSIVE LIBERALISM »

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3) Big Tent Progessive Revolution In the articles Big Tent Christianity Pretending To Be The Church and Pretending That Big Tent Christianity Is The Church, which serves as the second part, Apprising Ministries has taken you through a short report entitled Big Tent conference in Raleigh hopes to [...]

TOXIC THEOLOGY OF DOUG PAGITT »

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who [...]

REMEMBERING THE AWFUL REALITY OF HELL »

Apprising Ministries has reminded you that the Emerging Church 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 Pagitt, are busy “doing theology.” This is their term for bantering ideas back and forth—that may or may not have anything to do with the Bible—as they [...]

THE NEW DOWNGRADE AND ITS APOSTLES OF UNBELIEF »

This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been blessed of Jesus to be used as one of His “go-to” ministries in the area of  the ne0-Gnostic corruption called Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is now pandemic within mainstream evangelicalism through its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church with its quasi-universalism in a [...]

THE "DEATH" OF THE EMERGING CHURCH AND BIG TENT CHRISTIANITY »

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Gathering Their Teachers For the past 5+ years now Apprising Ministries has closely monitored the sinfully [...]

BRIAN MCLAREN INADVERTENTLY REVEALS WHO HE WORSHIPS »

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on [...]

CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE DOESN'T MATTER TO BRIAN MCLAREN »

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; [...]

MYSTICISM—PART 5 »

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Pietism & Subjective Christianity Balance. Is there anything more elusive? Most of us are constantly striving for balance, whether it is with our time, money, diet or relationships. If few of us are ever content that we [...]

MYSTICISM—PART 4 »

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission:    Mysticism’s Inroads    Most evangelical Christians probably would not recognize themselves in the previous discussion of mysticism (as found in our last three papers), but there are subtle influences at work drawing believers in this direction even without [...]

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