Category: Tony Campolo

JESUS DEFINES MARRIAGE FOR RED LETTER CHRISTIANS »

…he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (James 1:8)
Jesus In The Red Letters Of Scripture
Tony Campolo, a leading spokeman for the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), tells us below that his friends Brian McLaren and Richard Rohr were actually among those who started something known as Red Letter Christians, which also includes [...]

THE GREATEST EXPERT ON THE SCRIPTURES AND HIS VIEW OF THE BIBLE »

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 [...]

HERESCOPE: THE EMERGING CHURCH—CIRCA 1970 »

 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.
I’ve said [...]

MYSTICISM MELDS MUSLIM MYSTICS TO TONY CAMPOLO AND EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY »

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! 
  
All things have been handed over to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him. (Matthew 11:27, ESV) 
The Christian Is An Ambassador of Jesus Christ To Speak For [...]

MAN-CENTERED GOSPEL VS. GOD-CENTERED GOSPEL »

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 [...]

WHAT IS A RED-LETTER CHRISTIAN TONY CAMPOLO? »

March 10, 2008 on his PBS show Tavis Smiley asks Tony Campolo, “what is a ‘Red Letter Christian?’” Campolo replies:
Well, he or she is somebody whose beliefs are very traditional in a sense. It’s a person that believes in the Apostles’ Creed, who believes salvation comes from Jesus, who believes that the bible was inspired by [...]

EMERGING EASTERN-STYLE MEDITATION FOR GLOBAL PEACE…AND WORSE… »

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:5-6)
Eastern-Style Meditation As The Bridge To Unite All Religions And Transform Mankind
Building on It’s High Time To Realize [...]

THE VIRGINIA BAPTIST MISSION BOARD (SBC): HERETICS AND LIARS AS IT CONCERNS TONY CAMPOLO? »

Over at Watcher’s Lamp my good friend Jim Luppachino and associates have been closely following, and attempted to dialogue with, the Virginia Baptist Mission Board (SBC) concerning their current dealings with “Progressive Evangelical” [read: postliberal] Tony Campolo.
In the Apprising Ministries piece Tony Campolo to Enlighten Southern Baptists in Virginia we pointed out that Emergent Evangelical Prophet Tony Campolo is going [...]

TONY CAMPOLO IS “PARTLY RIGHT” »

“Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.” (Genesis 8:21)
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:11)
Did [...]

TONY CAMPOLO: COUNTER-REFORMATION SAINTS LIKE IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA IMPORTANT SOURCES OF HELP »

“The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that. ”Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ”The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in [...]

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