The Lord be praised that CRBC Company’s outreach Apprising Ministries shows up in this piece from Christian Post, which says, “Some are calling it the ‘Emerging Church Poster Wars’.” Nathan Black says:

A group of “PyroManiacs” bloggers recently posted a series of what they called “Motivational Posters for the Emerging Chaos” which were denounced by some as mockeries.

In my view, as one of the leading ministries Christ has raised up against this counterfeit Christianity, it would actually be more accurate to say that the posters have served to illustrate what is at stake in this Truth War being accelerated by the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church.

Black also points out:

Mike Clawson, who describes himself as a “postmodern” Christian and pastors Via Christus Community Church – an emerging church in Yorkville, Ill. – and was surprised by how the series of posters mocks the emerging church. “I found most of these posters rather sad (in a ‘I can’t believe how badly he’s misrepresenting us’ kind of way), and some even offensive,” Clawson wrote on his blog.

Staff at Relevant magazine, a bimonthly Christian publication for twentysomething Christians, criticized the PyroManiacs bloggers as “hard-line fundamentalists” who are “anti-emerging everything.”

Well, as I said in my comment during a very civil discussion with Mike Clawson at his Emerging Pensees blog:

In 1994, well before their even was an emerging church, I was still Arminian in theology and planted Rock Springs Mission Church. I was doing the “emerging thing” even before you. Attempting to be “relevant” and “missional” with hair down the middle of my back and my secular rock band coming out of the church. Played in bars, hung out with sinners…well, you know.

Doesn’t work in producing real converts to Christianity, because while the sympathy to the plights of our fellow man is obviously sincere, in the end the version of the gospel – the one you currently espouse – is deficient. Through my studies I began to see the reason why; and this was long before I looked into the Reformers: Salvation is through the grace of God alone; by the faith alone given to us by God, in Christ alone.

Two very radically different views of the Christian faith. Only one could be right, there is no middle ground here. There isn’t supposed to be.

See also:

AN EMERGING CHURCH RESPONSE TO PHIL JOHNSON AND THE “EMERGENT-SEE” POSTERS

A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE EMERGING CHURCH WITH MIKE CLAWSON AND KEN SILVA