DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! 

 

Well, in what follows we get the quasi-universalism of the all-inclusive Emerging Church aka Emergent Church now morphing into Emergence Christianity version of it anyway:

For a lot of Christians of all stripes, the first question that comes to mind when we think of people of other faiths is about them … are they in or out, going to heaven or hell?… Of course there’s a place and time for speculating on the fate of people of various religions and no religion…

We’re wondering if religious insider-outsider thinking is more tainted with “fleshly” tribalism – perhaps even a kind of racism or cultural/religious imperialism… But my confidence is in Jesus and his gospel – my confidence is not in us and our religious systems or institutions. I don’t think any religion – including my own – “owns” Jesus or has proprietary rights on his gospel of the kingdom of God…

 The way taught by Jesus’ gospel sends us into the world with an otherly attitude, not “us versus them,” but “us for all of us.”… These are some of my reflections on “plurality 2.0.” It’s not your grandfather’s exclusivism. It’s not your father’s relativism… Perhaps you could say it seeks conversion – but mutual conversion, not dominating conquest. (Online source)

Perhaps you’ll recognize the basic message from Guru Brian McLaren easier when we put like this: I’m ok; you’re ok, Jesus says we’re all okay. We’re good enough, and smart enough, and doggone it, God loves us just as we are.

Below we see Todd Friel on Brian McLaren and the dangers in The Emergent Church from the program “Wretched”

HT: 5 Pt. Salt

See also:

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IF YOU TRULY LOVE “JESUS” THERE ARE NO BOUNDARIES FOR THE “CHRIST-FOLLOWERS”

APPRISING MINISTRIES WITH A PEEK AT THE COMING SOTERIOLOGY OF EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

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