Apprising Ministries has pointed out before e.g. in Erwin McManus: Finding God Inside Of Yourself that Southern Baptist “distinguished futurist and cultural architect” Erwin McManus was very close to becoming one of the original youth leaders and youth ministers selected back in 1997 by Doug Pagitt for what would become the Terra Nova Project of Leadership Network (LN).
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Yesterday at her Confessing Queer (CQ) blog Seth Donovan, one of the alleged “innovative” and “most important voices for the future of Christianity” who spoke “into our future” in order to “shape the future of our faith” at the recently concluded emerging church conference Christianity 21 (c 21), shares her thoughts on what she talked [...]

It’s important you understand that mainstream evangelicalism continues moving further away from the certainty of Sola Scriptura in favor of highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). As you’ll see in Disciplines To Deception In Southern Baptist Convention entire state SBC conventions e.g. North Carolina are openly using teachings from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster.
Under under Discipleship Resources of the State Board of [...]

 Apprising Ministries has long been covering something known as Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC). Those familiar with AM pieces like Emergent Church: A Diseased Tree and A Conversation About The Emerging Church With Mike Clawson And Ken Silva know my view that this EC, as we now know it, essentially begins circa 1997.
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DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA
The postmodern homosexual lobby growing within mainstream evangelicalism, itself openly embracing existential Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), is right now using the exact same rhetoric concerning the Bible as did the modern homosexual lobby in the now dead mainline denominations who earlier embraced the exact same CSM.
O, but the result will be different this time; right… [...]

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 [...]

Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB)
Can You Hear The Voice of The Spirit?
Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you the following godly and prophetic insight from James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken. Herein we see [...]

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.”
“A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can [...]

In his post Phil Johnson begins with:
Some random but loosely-connected thoughts about the Fad-Driven Church® have been accumulating in my subconscious while I’ve been reposting those old entries about evangelical fads. So I’ve decided to interrupt the process of reposting old entries and take a load off my mind today…
Why is it that those who [...]