As you may know Apprising Ministries is part of an ongoing “conversation” of loosely-aligned communities concerning online apologetics and discernment ministry, which is much too broad to adequately define. One of the areas I cover is the Emerging Church, a neo-liberal cult that’s developed within evangelicalism, which claims its “big tent” Progressive Christianity is the historic Gospel of Jesus Christ bringing His kingdom to the earth now.

Now there are those who think this Emergent Church with its Liberalism 2.0 aka Emergence Christianity is dead. However, that memo seems to have been missed by those who are actually involved with EC. Here’s a couple of quick examples; first, there’s “a Synchroblog on ‘What is Emerging?’ in the church today” at the blog of former EC pastrix Julie Clawson in her post What is Emerging? 

You may recall Clawson was one of the “voices” at the C21 apostasia-palooza thrown by the two thirds of the EC trinity Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt. Which brings me to the third member of it, heretical EC guru Brian McLaren, who tweeted just this morning:

New blog post: on emergent: The emergent conversation has been profoundly important in my life. It created (and cr… http://bit.ly/b5sQmu (Online source)

That takes us over to McLaren’s blog to his post on emergent, where he masterfully manages not 1, not 2, but an impressive 3 links back to his book at Amazon.com. McLaren, whose in a much better position to know than any other authors, tells us:

In my view, reports of the conversation’s demise are greatly exaggerated. In some cases, they represent wishful thinking; in other cases, a limited frame of reference. From my perspective, Chapter 1 of the conversation may be ending, but there are many new and even better episodes to come. Or better put, what we call “the emergent conversation” may in fact be chapter 3 or 7 or 123 of a much longer storyline.

That larger story is nowhere close to being over, and in fact, I don’t think its most important work has even begun. The real future, as I see it, isn’t an intramural conversation among Evangelicals (as many think), or even among Western Christians (as others think), but rather an expanding conversation among progressive evangelicals, missional mainline Protestants, progressive Catholics, and postcolonial Christians from around the world.

Its future may or may not still use words like emergent, emerging, etc., but the cat is out of the bag. Deep questions are being raised, and when that happens, you can take two predictions to the bank, one of them being that you can’t get the questions back in the bag, and the second being that some people will try… (Online source)

And so, to quote those noted bohemian philosophers of yesteryear Sonny and Cher, “the beat goes on.”

See also:

DIANA BUTLER BASS ON CHRIS ROSEBROUGH, INGRID SCHLUETER, AND KEN SILVA IN SIN

BRIAN MCLAREN AND HIS NEW EMERGING PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY

THE EMERGING CHURCH, PHILIP CLAYTON, AND NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY

THE PROGRESSIVE RESURRECTION OF ROB BELL

 THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON OTHER RELIGIONS 

THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON CHRIST

LIBERALISM 2.0 THE NEW PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN