Here at Apprising Ministries I am often asked, “How is this Emergent stuff getting into our churches without being noticed?” The answer is, it almost always slithers in through worship leaders, youth ministers and/or youth pastors under the guise of “alternative” worship or services, which are themselves really nothing more than a pragmatic seeker sensitive approach for the pouty postmodern set.

As I noted in Emergent Wolves Enter Your Sheep Pens Through Youth Groups emerging church pastor Dan Kimball has also given you the Emergent approach when he speaks of one church which “fully believed they needed to start making changes in the way they worshipped in order to be in line with the emerging culture and emerging generations” so they:

they started by slowly adding a few things to their youth meetings. They corporately read ancient creeds and prayers. The lit candles and had times of silent prayer. They allowed the youth to paint during a worship time. They practiced lectio divina or “sacred reading,” the ancient practice of prayerful meditation on Scripture. Not all at once, but little by little they added these elements of worship to their existing meetings… (Emerging Worship: Creating Worship Gatherings for New Generations, 102, emphasis his)

And the fact that the Emergent Church has been using your young as spiritual guinea pigs was confirmed again in an interview recently by Tony Jones, the national coordinator of Emergent Village:

It’s no mistake that many of the emergent leaders were formerly youth workers. Church-based youth ministry is a fertile training ground for so much that is emergent: risk-taking, entrepreneurialism, pushing boundaries, getting in trouble :-), staying up-to-date on culture, etc. All of this has influenced the genesis of emergent. (Online source)

Well, know this: In the eyes of our Lord, by your not speaking up at your local churches, you are responsible for allowing this Emergent rebellion against the Bible to swallow up a whole generation of evangelical young—a kind of spiritual abortion—in their “fertile training ground” for this man-centered emerging church apostasy.

See also:

TONY JONES: EMERGENT CHURCH DIVINE INTERVENTION

EMERGENT CHURCH: DAN KIMBALL AND LECTIO DIVINA

TONY JONES AND THE EMERGENT SACRED WAY

EMERGENT CHURCH: DR. JOHN MACARTHUR ON THE NEW CULT OF LIBERALISM