Yesterday in Leonard Sweet Tweet On How To Find God here at Apprising Ministries I told you again that Leonard Sweet is leading theologian in the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church.

Sweet hides under the cover as Leadership Network as evangelical; and example of which could be found in Skip Heitzig Scheduled To Speak Along With Leonard Sweet At Calvary Of Albuquerque.

A quick aside, as you can see from the 5/8/10 screen shot of the National Worship Leader Conference Speakers page Sweet was still to be at “the NWLC Southwest.”

However, as you can see below, as of today 5/13/10 the “Southwest” has been removed:

The issue to be concerned with would be why someone like Leonard Sweet should be at a “worship leader” conference at any mainstream evangelical church in the first place. Again, he is good friends with Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren, who’s as much an evangelical as I am a Zen Buddhist.

Sweet himself also adheres to the newer postmodern form of big tent Progressive Christianity that McLaren began laying out more systematically in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity. As I told you yesterday, you’d best wake up to the fact that these are neo-Gnostics deeply steeped in of  corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF) by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and SBC minister Dallas Willard. 

And you’ll see in David Spangler, Leonard Sweet, And Quantum Spirituality  just how far out Sweet himself is. I showed you that yesterday he tweeted:

(Online source)

You should recognize this is not Christian theology at all; however, it is right in lockstep with the heretical teaching of some “divine spark within all mankind” of the Eastern mysticism at the root of the Emerging Church 2.0 and its psuedo-Christian religion they call Emergence Christianity.

With all this in mind I’m pleased to point you again to Leonard Sweet Quotes by Sandy Simpson of the fine online apologetics and discernment ministry Deception in the Church. He tells us:

This is a page containing a number of quotes proving Leonard Sweet, probably the leading spokesman promoting Emergent Church, is a false teacher. I will comment in blue about each quote. The issue of Sweet being invited into many churches and Christian universities to speak has become even direr as recently he was invited to speak at a Calvary Chapel conference. (Online source)

Simpson’s important post where he compiled copious quotes from Leonard Sweet’s work can be read in its entirety right here.

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