They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:4)

But You’re Worshiping Yourself

Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we hear a bit more on the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart preached by the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC). It’s a fulfillment of 2 Timothy 3:2 — men will be lovers of self; i.e. mankind.

Adam Walker Cleaveland tells us their Jesus Was Wrong and Samir Selmanovic shares the EC god, who’s essentially a bigger version of man, Is Father Of All Religion. Open theist Greg Boyd tells us this EC god has to wait while his cherished humans make their little choices before he can act because he just doesn’t know what these delightful creatures are going to do next. In other words, we’re not talking about the God of the Bible.

This is not to be considered an endorsement of Hank Henegraaff; however, as you can see here, the god of Emergence Christianity isn’t so unlike that of the Word Faith Movement. Which now brings me to And the winner is… by Peter Rollins, a rising star of the EC and friend of the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell. Therein Rollins informs us:

it is time to unveil the winning parable. It was difficult choosing 2nd and 3rd place as there where around half a dozen others that particularly stuck out to me as possible candidates. However, when I received this parable I knew straight away I had the winner in my hands. This parable is not only beautifully crafted, but has a narrative that really made me stop in my tracks and think… (Online source)

And in typical clever (not) Emerging Church fashion what made Rollins stop and think is a parable written in much the same style as his own writings; it simply reverses the original. In this case the author of the parable takes the poem Footprints In The Sand and twists it backward; so instead of being a pretty accurate depiction of the one true and living God of the Bible, this “Footprints” introduces us further to the insipid god of Emergence Christianity:

There was once a man who had lived a long and difficult life… The curtain was pulled back, and he stumbled through the light to meet God.

‘My Master and my Friend,’ the old man hailed God as he prostrated himself before God’s feet. Hearing no reply, the man looked up and saw God shuffling awkwardly in his chair, not quite managing to fight back a blush across his cheeks…

‘Tell me, Lord,’ he said, knowing already the lines that would come, ‘tell me what the footprints mean.’… And slowly God replied, his voice shaking with emotion. ‘The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child, is when you carried me.’…

the battles he had fought and the doubts he had put asunder, ‘this was the measure of your faith: when difficulties came, you gathered up this tired and arthritic God, and carried your beliefs to safety.’

A small wind blew through the old photographs and worn papers, and the two men sat in silence for a moment. ‘I have prepared a room for you,’ God said after a while, ‘though I quite understand if you don’t want me to stay.’ (Online source)

The wise will have nothing to do with the seducing spirits in the Emergent Church with their doctrines of demons about some pathetic god, who is in reality, but a mirror of themselves.

HT: Emergent Pillage

See also:

BRIAN MCLAREN IMAGINING A DIFFERENT GOD

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY: QUANTUM SHIFT TO PANENTHEISM

DID NADIA BOLZ-WEBER JUST CALL JESUS “A SCHMUCK”?

THERE IS NO SPIRITUAL SWITZERLAND

THE EMERGING CHURCH HIGHJACKING EVANGELICALISM

THE EMERGING CHURCH SOWING ITS NEO-ORTHODOX CONFUSION ON SCRIPTURE

DID JESUS ARGUE DOCTRINE?