Apprising Ministries has long been maintaining that Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy because of its ongoing embrace of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC). As I said in Know Your Bible this EC was a Trojan Horse containing a semi-pelagian (at best) rebellion against Sola Scriptura designed to unload its highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard.

Some of the corrupting results of this spurious CSM can be seen in Contemplative Spirituality Growing Within Mainstream Evangelicalism; here however, we focus another of these tragic results as evidenced in The New Christians With Christianity Worth Believing—No Sola Scriptura: Yes, Women Pastors And Queer Christians. This is a play on words using the titles of two books by EC luminaries Tony Jones, “theologian in residence” at the church of the second author, his quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt. Jones has written The New Christians and Pagitt’s latest is called A Christianity Worth Believing.

The other day in Doug Pagitt Invites You To Christianity 21 I reminded you again of the upcoming Emerging Church conference Christianity 21 (C 21) October 9-11. Tony Jones—the other half of this most dubious duo of the Emergent Church—has told us Jones also informs us that “all 21 of these Voices,” women who’ll be revealing “the way the Christianity will be changing in coming days” are also going to “be in a pulpit somewhere in the Twin Cities that Sunday morning.” In fact, C 21 is being put on by JoPa Productions, which is the production company formed by Jones and Pagitt.

As you can see in Phyllis Tickle And The Emerging Church: It’s Not If Sola Scriptura Ends But When JoPa’s first splash was The Great Emergence conference last December built around the latest EC ear-scratching book by Phyllis Tickle, the Empress of Emergence Christianity. And AM also showed you that among alleged “innovative” and “most important voices for the future of Christianity” who’ll “speak into our future” in order to “shape the future of our faith” at C 21 will be Tickle herself, PCUSA gay affirming “pastor” Nanette Sawyer, and “queer inclusive” ELCA “pastor” Nadia Bolz-Weber.

Bolz-Weber, who’s going to be leading “a Southern Gospel/Americana Bluegrass Eucharist service,” at something called the Greenbelt Festival this weekend, also wanted us to know that:

I’m on the Emergent Psalter podcast this week: Psalm 45. The nerdiest Psalm ever. http://tinyurl.com/kmm8pa (Online source)

A quick note in passing; I know from the last time Doug Pagitt called me that Bolz-Weber is “uncomfortable” concerning my coverage of her and as I shared in Nadia Bolz-Weber Weighs In On ELCA Church-Wide Assembly she herself has made it clear that she thinks “the people who hate me are a little silly”. Well frankly, I couldn’t care less; 1) Jesus knows that I don’t hate her at all, and 2) it just so happens that she’s involved in issues I am covering using the forums that He gave me. As such, because I am actually a pastor-teacher and not a usurper as she is, I will expose these false teachers and their pseudo-Christian skubalon in whatever way I feel God leading me.

Newsflash: If you are foolish enough to attempt to pass yourself off as a gay-affirming woman who’s supposedly a Lutheran pastor doing “Emerging Church ala Luther,” and if you are then touted by two well-respected Emergent Church leaders as one of the “most important voices for the future of Christianity,” then you’d best be prepared for those of us the Lord has raised up to follow the example of Acts 17:11 — Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so. Notice it doesn’t say they went to their CSM experience; Sola Scriptura, they consulted the Word of God.

With all due respect, since Martin Luther Says No…To Women Pastors, she’s no Luther; let alone being able to see the neighborhood of the great inspired Apostle Paul from where she lives. These noble-minded Bereans even tested Paul by Scripture, which pleased God so much He had it included in His infallible and inerrant Bible; and there are those of us who’ll be right here testing the seducing spirits working through the EC with their doctrines of demons as long as He chooses to sustain us. Which brings me to this podcast Bolz-Weber herself has alerted us to. It’s hosted by an Isaac Everett, who’s website is music for the urban mystic. Everett informs us that he:

is a musician, songwriter, and audio designer, and a frequent performer on piano, keyboards, and didjeridu. He began studying music in the Yamaha method at age 3 and studied classical piano music through elementary school. Switching to jazz at the age of 12, he attended NYU as a music student where he studied with Arturo O’Farrill, Frank Kimbrough, Joel Weiskopf, Philip Johnston, and Justin DelloJoio. He also earned a second degree in mathematics.

Isaac is an artist-in-residence at the Church of the Epiphany, a company member of Storahtelling, and the co-founder of Transmission, an underground church in New York City. (Online source)

Note carefully that Everett is also an EC pastor of sorts such as Bolz-Weber. Now, the introduction for this podcast reads:

Nadia Bolz-Weber, the Sarcastic Lutheran, discusses Psalm 45, the nerdiest love song in the Bible. Nadia is the pastor of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver and the author of Salvation on the Small Screen: 24 Hours of Christian Television. (Online source)

We’ll leave Psalm 45 being “the nerdiest love song in the Bible” aside for the time being as we close this piece out. For now, let’s just let you listen to an EC “exposition” of Psalm 45—where Bolz-Weber shares that this Psalm talks about “like the chicks in your court, are like, totally hot,” and “it makes me think the person he’s writing about is actually kind of a schmuck and he doesn’t like him.” The Psalm is then read against the background sounds of Isaac Everett. O, here’s something positive; I personally rather enjoyed the music itself.    

You can listen to this podcast by clicking here.

See also:

JOHN MACARTHUR: WHEN BEING “NICE” IS WRONG

NADIA BOLZ-WEBER: SERMON ON JUDAS AND GRACE GONE WILD

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY—A POSTLIBERAL CULT SLITHERS INTO EVANGELICALISM

NON-GOSPEL OF BRIAN MCLAREN AND ROB BELL

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY AND PANENTHEISM

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

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