DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! 

 

But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves…always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. (2 Timothy 3:1-2,7)

Phyllis Tickle Scratches Itching Ears With Her Bedtime Story Of “The Great Emergence”

In her post The Great Emergence Event will Tickle Ears our friend Carla over at More Books and Things tells us a bit about the Empress of Emergence Phyllis Tickle, fresh from her teaching at the Mars Hill Bible Church of Rob Bell, and her October event where she’ll be conducting story-time:

The book is called Great Emergence, The: How Christianity Is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle. The big event (thegreatemergence.com/TheEvent) is called The Great Emergence, a one day conference that will take place in Winnipeg on October 31 (Halloween). It’s being promoted as…

A BOOK… AN EVENT… A PHENOMENON…

The event consists of four main sessions with author/speaker Phyllis Tickle. In between these sessions, participants will also do the daily office (three daily times of scheduled prayer) based on a bestselling book called The Divine Hours (also by Phyllis Tickle). (Online source)

Some familiar with Apprising Ministries know that my late mother was from Sydney, Nova Scotia so Canada has always held a special place in my heart. Previously in Phyllis Tickle And The Emerging Church: It’s Not If Sola Scriptura Ends But When AM brought you an eyewitness report of the first Great Emergence Event, which was held last December and put on by Jopa Productions. The quote by Tickle contained in the title of my post denigrating the Word of God reveals that this is not a move of God at all.

For those who don’t know the Jo(nes)Pa(gitt) company specializing in “innovative learning events & social media consulting” is actually Tony Jones, theologian in the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—along with his quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt. They’re also the dubious duo behind the upcoming EC gathering called Christianity 21, which you can find out more about in Christianity 21: Emerging Voices Of A Pseudo-Christian Faith.

Ok, Something called Emerging Spirit from the United Church of Canada carries an recent interview with Phyllis Tickle where we’re told:

Declining church membership, the breaking down of denominational loyalty and barriers, the rise of new “emergent” churches that blend ancient rituals, litanies and hymns together with contemporary forms of worship and calls for social action–something is happening out there. But what is it? And why is it happening now?

What’s happening is as old as religion itself, says Phyllis Tickle, author of the book The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why. Tickle, who will be speaking at The Great Emergence, a one-day conference in Winnipeg on October 31, 2009, explored the link between the church’s history of change and the new face of the church today in an interview with Winnipeg freelance writer John Longhurst. (Online source)

Tickle told the truth there; this Emergence de-formation aka apostasy is indeed “as old as religion itself.” Tickle also further scratches itching emerging ears as she muses:

Evangelicalism has lost much of its credibility and much of its spiritual energy of late, in much the same way that mainline Protestantism has. In their place is a new approach called the Emergent Church. This is a new gathering of believers that is not based on traditional denominations, creeds or beliefs. (Online source)

Trickles of truth again; much of evangelicalism has lost their First Love and is now as apostate as Roman Catholicism, but this “new approach” of the EC is really as old as Genesis 3 where their father mocked: Indeed, has God said? In Phyllis Tickle: The Reformation Is Over And Reformers Have New Names Today you’ll find out she feels EC leaders such as Brian McLaren, along with Jones and Pagitt, and other EC notables like Rob Bell and his friend Peter Rollins are among the new reformers.

No, the wise person will recognize dreamers and false prophets like Phyllis Tickle for who they really are — having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people (2 Timothy 3:5).

See also:

ROB BELL, PETER ROLLINS AND PHYLLIS TICKLE TOGETHER ADVANCING EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

PETER ROLLINS AND PHYLLIS TICKLE ON THE EMERGENCE OF A BRAND NEW RELIGION

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

ROB BELL, PETER ROLLINS, AND QUEERMERGENT’S ADELE SAKLER

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

“GAY-AFFIRMING” PASTOR JAY BAKKER TO SPEAK FOR ELCA GATHERING