The Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), de-formation of the Christian faith continues spreading like a cancer throughout the visible church. Below you’ll see that the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles (EDLA) is setting itself up for even more division by bringing in EC Guru Brian McLaren:

L.A. Night General Convention 2009

July 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m., Anaheim Arena

Presented by the Emerging Church/Fresh Expressions community within the Diocese of Los Angeles, this evening of music, spoken word, light-painting and other visual effects will create an environment focusing on God’s creation and creativity.

Titled “Genesis: From Breath to Wonder,” the experience will feature seven cycles, or segments. Featured participants will include Brian McLaren, author and leader in the Emerging Church movement. (Online source)

Apprising Ministries does find it interesting to note that above McLaren is billed as a “leader in the Emerging Church movement,” although when the same thing is said by an online discernment and apologetics ministry it’s always denied.  You should also know that all the talk about this EC movement being dead is also a smokescreen as evidenced, for example, by the following from Episcopal Life Online.

Notice below how they appeal to Phyllis Tickle as an authority, and for their understanding of the EC:

[Episcopal] New ways of “being church” that developed in the past couple of decades are gathered under the term “emergent church.”

It’s also called a conversation, a movement, a phenomenon – and defining it is “like chasing mercury around a chemistry lab table,” said Phyllis Tickle, author of The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. (Online source)

In fact the website Anglican Curmudgeon cites Bishop Jon J. Bruno of the same EDLA bringing in McLaren while he informs us that Tickle has recently addressed them:

Great Emergence author Phyllis Tickle helped engage this topic when she spoke to our Diocesan Convention about the cycle of unprecedented global change that is reaching across the Church, financial markets, and digital communication, among other areas.

Emergent Church leader Brian McLaren will continue the conversation here in Anaheim, and also when our Diocesan Convention meets again this December. He and the Diocese’s new Center for Creative Ministries will bring us L.A. Night on July 15 as an experience of “Genesis: From Breath to Wonder.”…

The Emergent Church brings us an authenticity that is refreshing in these times of pervasive change and transition. We hope you will see similar creativity and freshness in the ways in which this Diocese is welcoming all as Christ, renewing God’s creation, serving with generosity, and building new community. (Online source)

What’s important for you to understand is that within mainstream evangelicalism this EC postliberal de-formation of Christianity is currently pursuing the exact same pattern once followed by their forebears in the original Cult of Liberal Theology in capturing mainline denominations like the Episcopal Church currently imploding from liberalism’s divisive corrupti0n. 

They didn’t listen to the warning once issued by Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989); may the Lord open the eyes of mainstream evangelical leaders, before it’s too late:

There is a progression that takes place in liberal theology: It begins with a corrupt bibliology, a corrupt view of the nature and the inspiration of Scripture. They have a corrupt theology because once you are picking and choosing from the Bible what you want, your theology has to suffer from it, because your human reason is corrupt… every major theological seminary that has turned from orthodox Christianity began with disbelief of Biblical doctrine. There wasn’t a single exception.

This corrupt Bibliology then lead them to the next step. Their theology began to be touched by it, their view of the Cross, the Virgin Birth were both immediately questioned; then came the miracles of Christ… And finally they had emptied the Gospel of all its content; they were simply using the outward shell so that they go on collecting money from the people and the churches; because they knew that if the people in the pew knew that they were apostate, they’d throw them out. So the strategy was hang on to the trust funds; hang on to the money we’ve got; hang on the properties we control, and we will gradually educate the laymen into this new approach to theology.

And then finally we will take control of everything. The gradual process of feeding you theological poison until you become immunized enough so that you don’t know what’s happening to you. And when you wake up to what’s happening to you, it’s too late they’ve got everything. That is not a baseless charge, I stand prepared to prove that the Cult of Liberal Theology in the United States has deliberately and consistently followed this methodology to entrap, control and dominate the denominations and the churches of the United States and our educational institutions. (The Cult of Liberalism, available from Walter Martin Religious InfoNet)

You ignore this growing EC cult and its inroads into mainstream evangelicalism to your own eternal peril.

See also:

WRETCHED: BRIAN MCLAREN GOSPEL PREACHING

EPISCOPAL LEADERS PREPARE FOR HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATES

PHYLLIS TICKLE AND THE GREAT EMERGENCE TO INFECT CANADA

BUT DO EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY AND BRIAN MCLAREN REALLY LOVE GAY PEOPLE?

POPULAR EMERGING CHURCH WEBSITE THE OOZE SLITHERS OUT OF THE GLBTQ-AFFIRMING CLOSET

MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM NOW ON THE RAPID SLIDE TO APOSTASY

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS