Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame. (1 Corinthians 15:33-34)

Interlocking Circles Emerging Again

In Meet Outlaw Preachers yesterday Apprising Ministries posted the new video from the rather rapscallion bunch, who have crowned themselves outlaw preachers, and are now sprouting up around head Outlaw gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker. The main point was to alert you that now these rebels are beginning to band together with the wider egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC).

A case in point is EC leader Tony Jones, “theologian in residence” at the Emergent Church of his quasi-universalist “pastor” Doug Pagitt, listed in the credits of the video and practicing lesbian “Christ-follower” Adele Sakler aka Existential Punk. If you didn’t know, budding LGBTQ activist Sakler is adminstrator of the Queermergent group website and has been “co-leader” of the Richmond Emergent Cohort, which is aligned with Emergent Village.

Turns out that Sakler’s pretty excited about being featured among the seducing spirits and outlaws now sowing doctrines of demons along with their perversion of the grace of God:

New Post at Existential Punk: ‘i’m An Outlaw Preacher!’ http://twurl.nl/xti85c THANK YOU, @conniejoh2o for including me! i am so honored! (Online source)

What’s important to understand here is, regardless of how silly/bizarre the doctrines spewed by these rebels against the final authority of God’s Word may seem to you, the fact remains that for years now this spiritually poisonous postliberalism of the EC has been slowly injected into evangelical Young Adult and Youth Groups. A tiny, but steady drip of venom, which has been eating away at an entire generation of youth, who by and large now, wouldn’t know proper Biblical doctrine even if they saw it.

When The Blind Lead The Blind They Are Certain To Go Astray

I’ll give you a quick illustration here. Unless you’ve been communing with E.T. on another planet somewhere you’ll know that Emerging Church icon Rob Bell is easily the rock star of the EC, which is why I often refer to him as the Elvis of Emergence. However, when we consider e.g. that Bell is in agreement with unbelieving New Age priestess Marianne Williamson as they quote “The Great Enlightened Ones” Who Tell Us Man Has Divine Greatness, the question becomes: Is Rob Bell Evangelical?

Sadly, in today’s postmodern Humpty Dumpty language, the answer is: Yes. So now the door to the mainstream evangelical community is wide open for Bell, who early on attacked Sola Scriptura because he’s an open practioner of highly subjective and corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, which like all mystics then becomes his governing hermeneutic for Scripture. In Rob Bell, Peter Rollins And Phyllis Tickle Together Advancing Emergence Christianity you can see Bell considers Peter Rollins his friend.

And in additon Bell also tells us that Rollins is one of the freshest voices I’ve heard. As you’ll see in Rob Bell, Peter Rollins, And Queermergent’s Adele Sakler such lofty EC royalty as Brian McLaren and Phyllis Tickle are huge fans of Rollins themselves. So, by featuring Rollins at his recent pastor’s conference, Bell would use his own popularity to open the door wider for his friend to also crossover more into the mainstream of apostatizing evangelicalism. If you think these associations just happen by accident; think again, there’s an agenda.

This brings us to Sakler and Rollins. Sadly, from her own testimony below Sakler tells us “the great Peter Rollins” is largely responsible for helping her find comfort in her unrepentant sin of homosexuality:

In 2002 I went to Northern Ireland to do a DTS with YWAM. I met the great Peter Rollins and we developed a great friendship. His teachings and writings on postmodernism and Christianity radically shaped how I viewed my faith. I could no longer hang onto certainty with regards to interpreting scripture. (Online source, emphasis mine)

If you have any love for GLBTQ people, for whom Jesus died, then this ought to make you angry; Rollins isn’t to be commended, he should be roundly rebuked for his homopression of Sakler. This is the necessary background with which to listen to Salker interview her friend, shooting star of the EC, Peter Rollins on the something beautiful podcast—part of the Emergent Podcast Network of Emergent Village—and which is:

a weekly experiment in podcasting. we hope it truly becomes stories worth talking about. stories about God, life, friends, family and why it all matters. join us as we share why God matters to us all and how it impacts our life. (Online source)

The intro to this edition of the podcast informs us: 

this week our good friend Adele Sakler (@existentialpunk) shares audio from a chat with her friend, author Peter Rollins. Rollins is the founder and coordinator of the experimental collective in Belfast, Ireland, Ikon. he is also a writer, speaker and blogger. he’s the author of the books, “How (Not) To Speak Of God,” “The Fidelity of Betrayal: Towards a Church Beyond Belief,” and most recently, “The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales.” (Online source) 

At her personal website Existential Punk Sakler herself tells us in Something Beautiful Podcast, My Interview With Pete Rollins:

Back in February when my good friend, Pete Rollins, was in Richmond, i had the wonderful opportunity to interview him… It is now up live at Something Beautiful Podcast. i hope you enjoy it! (Online source)

You can listen to this podcast featuring Peter Rollins, whom Rob Bell says is one the the “freshest voices” of the EC and Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren tells us helped him “understand my own spiritual journey more clearly,” by clicking right here. There’s really no gentle way to say this; but Jesus told us that those who wish to hide in the shadows of uncertainty and ambiguity are the unregenerate; and/or those who are unwilling to repent of their sin, who refuse to come into the Light that they may experience His grace and forgiveness.

Such as these who:

having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:5-7, ESV)

The wise will have nothing to do with these dreamers of doubt and uncertainty because they are absolutely nothing at all like the people of God mentioned in Hebrews, chapter 11.

See also:

THE NIGHTMARE BEGINNING FOR MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY—A POSTLIBERAL CULT SLITHERS INTO EVANGELICALISM

YOU LOVE JESUS; GOOD FOR YOU, BUT WHICH ONE?

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

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY PASTRIX NADIA BOLZ-WEBER EXPOUNDS ON PSALM 45

JAY BAKKER FEATURED ON OOZE.TV OF EMERGING CHURCH

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