Along with the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research (LTR), in our post Has Leonard Sweet Been “Disinvited” By Calvary Of Albuquerque?, Apprising Ministries been covering what’s now becoming The Saga of Skip and Sweet.

The last information we had was found yesterday in the LTR post Calvary Chapel Albuquerque States: Leonard Sweet Will Not Be Speaking at Conference – Lighthouse Trails Calls For Answers:

This is an update regarding the Lighthouse Trails report that New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet is scheduled to speak at Calvary Chapel Albuquerque for the National Worship Leader Conference this June. Conflicting reports are occurring as to whether Sweet’s speaking engagement has been cancelled. Please refer to our recent posting, Questions Arise: Is New Age Sympathizer Leonard Sweet Speaking at Calvary Chapel Albuquerque or Not? where we write on some of these conflicting reports.

A number of Lighthouse Trails’ readers contacted us over the last couple days sending us copies of an email they each received from an undisclosed personnel at Calvary Chapel Albuquerque. The form letter states:

Thank you for contacting us here at The Connection and thanks for writing to Pastor Skip. We always love to hear from you. The conference is not a Calvary conference.  The conference is being put on by Worship Leader Magazine using our facility – just like CAPE, Home school graduation, funerals, etc.  Therefore, Leonard Sweet is not speaking at “Skip’s Church”.  [LT: Heitzig is one of the speakers at this event.] He is part of a conference using Calvary’s facilities. Leonard Sweet will attend the conference but WILL NOT BE SPEAKING. It is our prayer that God will continue to reveal Himself to you through His Word as you seek to know Him.Love in Christ,
Connection Communications

Because the National Worship Leader Conference website still maintains that Leonard Sweet will indeed be speaking at Calvary Chapel Albuquerque, an official public notice from CCA stating that Leonard Sweet will not be speaking there could help clear up the present confusion. Just as important, a statement explaining to the body of Christ why they have decided to remove him from the platform would be important.

In a day and age when so many Christian leaders are sending out mixed messages to the Church regarding spiritual deception, those wanting to maintain biblical integrity need to be forthright and clear in what they believe and stand for. And regardless of what denomination or movement this confusion is occurring in, those particular leaders do have a biblical obligation to the entire body of Jesus Christ. This is not Lighthouse Trails saying this – this is what the Bible requests of leaders and pastors. (Online source)

Despite those of us in this field of ministry being branded with the derogatory slur “ODMs,” which essentially makes us the new lepers, LTR is absolutely correct. And this is becoming a good example of the very real reason Jesus has sent forth online apologetics and discernment ministries.

Of course I can only speak for myself, however, my local church has no doubt that God called its Apprising Ministries to help pioneer this needed field of ministry because I was quite literally given both this website as well as the one for Christian Reasearch Network.

And now this morning we received the below email from an AM reader:

I looked up the National Worship Leader Conference speakers.   Leonard Sweet AND Skip Heitzig are listed as speakers.  What is Skip’s picture and name doing there if he is not a part of it?

So what is this garbage about Skip just letting them use his church? Someone is not telling the truth!

Sure enough, as you can see below, still featured on the National Worship Leader Conference Speakers page as being at NWLC Southwest is Leonard Sweet—a leading theologian in the Emerging Church—but now we see Skip Heitzig himself listed there as well: 

So now along with LTR we at AM are also calling for some answers.

See also:

CONCERNING LEONARD SWEET OF THE EMERGING CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY: QUANTUM SHIFT TO PANENTHEISM

BRIAN MCLAREN AND EVANGELICAL PANENTHEISM

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY AND PANENTHEISM

BRIAN MCLAREN SPREADING DIVISION IN THE CHURCH

THE EMERGING CHURCH, PHILIP CLAYTON, AND NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY

RICHARD ROHR AND THE EMERGING CHURCH AS THE THIRD WAY