Category: Emergent Church
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Youth Ministry
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self,… For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves.
(2 Timothy 3:2)
Satan Has Skillfully Played The Heartstrings Of Mankind For Many, Many Years
Phyllis Tickle has correctly pointed out in her book The Great Emergence exactly where those of us tracking the Emergent Church knew it was headed all along:
many of the [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 8, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
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, ESV)
The Great “Enlightened Ones” Telling Us Through Rob Bell That We’re [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, NASB)
Feelings…Nothing More Than Feelings…
The evangelical community has embraced these Emergent wolves and the price is only now beginning to be counted. Recently Apprising Ministries covered Emergent Church Theologian Tony Jones and [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
In his Saturday, October 18, 2008 sermon “Beware the dogs” Rob Bell, a popular icon of the Emerging Church, says:
Beware those dogs. Now, uh… this week, I’m out running; and I run by a church and the church building out front has one of those backlit signs where they change the letters each week to tell you [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. (1 Timothy 4:1)
Drinking Deadly Deception From The Poisoned Well Of Murky Mysticism
One Sunday morning recently Rob Bell, an icon in the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church and teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church, taught his [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
Apprising Ministries directs your attention to our sister outreach Christian Research Net for a couple of posts by CRN contributor Dave Marriott. Both concern the latest book by Rob Bell, an icon in the Emergent rebellion against Sola Scriptura slowly swallowing up evangelicalism, called Jesus Wants To Save Christians (JWtSC).
In the first called Jesus Wants To [...]
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 Dec 4, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. (Titus 1:9)
It Is The Job Of The Pastor To Clearly Articulate Sound Doctrine For His Flock
As near as I can tell, sadly, there really doesn’t seem to have been [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 4, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, ESV)
A Ball Of Confusion; That’s What The Church Is Today
That state of the visible church in the evangelical community is really rather pitiful indeed; and, there’s just no easy way to say it. Years ago [...]
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