Apprising Ministries has long been covering the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—that’s now morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and in posts such as Tony Jones, The Emerging Church And Progressive Christianity I’ve showed you that it’s coming out of the closet now concerning it’s neo-liberal theology. For all but the most duped it couldn’t be clearer, which you can see e.g. in Did Brian McLaren Overplay His Hand?, as the EC guru laid his progressive Christian theology right on the table in his new book.

I’ve also told you about the an upcoming EC heresy-fest next month called the Theology After Google (TAG) conference, and in Emerging Church And Progressive Christian Theology I pointed out that TAG will bring more attention to the  neo-liberal progressive Christian process theologian Philip Clayton. His latest book Transforming Christian Theology, with the foreword from heretical EC theologian Tony Jones, is Clayton’s slant on a newer form of  Progressive Christianity—itself but liberal theology by another name.

In fact, Clayton’s attempt to “transform” Christian theology is precisely the big-tent, progressive Christianity that Brian McLaren, now a Living Spiritual Teacher alongside such as Deepak Chopra, the Dalai Lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle, and Marianne Williamson, lays out in his new book A New Kind of Christianity. Now with this backdrop I give you another example of the Liberalism 2.0 spreading throughout the EC. Last Night Emergent Village tweeted:

RT @nelsoncost Why do I consider myself an “Emergent ” – My search for another way : http://tinyurl.com/y8mlw5c ^AM (Online source)

The above link takes us to the piece Why do I consider myself an “Emergent” – My search for another way over at the EC site TransFORM, which I told you in Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers is a network created by Steve Knight of Emergent Village. Written by Nelson Costa, the piece appears to have been the inaugural post for TransFORM’s blogs section. This is not to be seen as an attempt to attack Mr. Costa, but rather, it is to show the futility of the uber-inclusive non-gospel of the neo-liberal cult of the EC.

How sad that it offers no actual salvation for such a one as Costa nor does the EC even warn those who believe as Costa does of the hopelessness of trying to make God into their image. As one who’s been studying this de-formation of the Christian faith for years now, you may believe me when I tell you that Costa speaks for many still lost in the EC when he tells us:

As a Christian liberal or a liberal Christian or a non-Orthodox Christian (none of these expressions work fully for me), I’ve been asked countless times if I walked away from both the perimeter Christian name no longer applies to me. I believe that my journey is not far from the base of the faith of Jesus in any way, but that is directed to it. As a liberal Christian, I believe that is in my journey back home, not due to return, but due to move on…

First and foremost, I can not get the home on the road that suggests that Jesus is the only way or that Christianity is the only true religion. For me, at least, this road is banned, closed forever. Even if I wanted – and I do not – could not make my heart, my mind, my soul, accept that God could be so unique and arbitrary as selfish as to confine the revelation, or salvation, the one religious tribe…

I can not get home on the road where the significance of the cross is that God requires a blood sacrifice and that a person pays the price for the sins of another. I know that the “atoning sacrifice” as this doctrine is called by some, is a road that I walk a lot, and find God, and feel safe. I respect that. It was a way by which I myself have trod in my childhood. But I can not take over this road. That God seems now to be abusive and arbitrary,…

I can not get home through the biblical literalism of exclusivism or canonical. At some point of the day, punched the ground of scripture with my shovel, and discovered that there is much more down there than can be seen on the surface… I found passages in the Bible where the spirit of God’s voice seemed far away, leaving the words without any sense … and found next to the Bible passages that seemed to vibrate with that spirit… But I can not get there through textual analysis. I need to get home by another road. (Online source)

Can you finally see it now? This whole Emerging/ent/ence cult with its rebellion against the Word of God can easily be summed up like this: I’ll believe what I want to believe thank you very much!

See also:

NEO-ORTHODOX APPROACH TO THE BIBLE PERFECT FIT FOR EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

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

DID BRIAN MCLAREN OVERPLAY HIS HAND?

TONY JONES, THE EMERGING CHURCH AND PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY

DISSENTION GROWING AROUND THE EMERGING CHURCH

EMERGENT PAIN AND DISCORD IN THE EMERGING CHURCH

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