EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE, “SONGS FOR A REVOLUTION O HOPE, VOL. 1?”…OR BRIAN MCLAREN HAS NOW LEFT THE BUILDING…
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 6, 2007 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus
File this one under: You’ve Got to be Kidding Me!
You know, in a small way I do kind of feel sorry for apologists, such as they are, for the Emergent Church when they have to defend Brian McLaren and his deep skybala. For you see, McLaren is beyond question a leading theological Guru in the emerging church, and when he does stuff like you’ll witness below it has just got to be like a living nightmare for guys like Dan Kimball and Erwin McManus. Because you don’t get to go emerging without your McLaren.
But this kind of “progressive” warmed-over bohemian pseudo-Christian mumbo jumbo simply further demonstrates what I discuss in More Indication the Emergent Church is a Cult of the New Liberal Theology. As you’ll see its shades of the Beatles’ “All You Need Is Love.” Actually, about all that’s missing from this McLaren collaboration with his comrades The Restoration Project [yeah, no cult here] is the sitar of the late George Harrison for what truly appears and sounds like an ode to Harrison’s own “My Sweet Lord.”