Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to help alert you to the 1 Peter 4:17 judgments now coming upon the church visible in large part rooted in the foolish decision by mainstream evangelical leaders to not purge the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church from its ranks. ^[1]

In recent articles like Acts 29 Network And Reformed Counter Reformation Spirituality and John Piper, Rick Warren & Foster-Willardism I’ve also expressed concern about so-called New Calvinism, which itself appears to be a postmodern form of Calvinism embracing both Reformation theology and the spurious spirituality of Counter Reformation Roman Catholicism. ^[2]

The other day, just before another DOS attack crashed AM and its sister outreach Christian Research Network, I pointed you to Grow Up. Settle Down. Keep Reforming. Advice For The Young, Restless, Reformed by Dr. John MacArthur.

Now I don’t agree with everything MacArthur teaches, but it’s beyond question he’s an  elder statesman in the church visible. For that reason, regardless of what our differences might be, MacArthur is worthy of our respect and should be listened to carefully.

In the case of the above piece he gave some very good advice to a movement whose leaders are involved in some questionable spiritual teaching. One in particular is Mark Driscoll, who just might be the Christian version of the mouth that roars.

He seems to have fired back at MacArthur in the form of the posting of a:

talk at the Resurgence conference in Orlando, Florida earlier this year.

In this talk, he addresses the four theological distinctives of the current global movement in Christianity: Reformed theology, complementarian relationships, Spirit-filled lives, and missional churches. (Online source)

It’s a well known fact that John MacArthur is a leading critic of the charismatic movement and a cessationist himself. For the point of this piece I’m not going to make further comment, I merely state this as fact. With this in mind then, for your consideration, I bring to your attention the following statement from Driscoll’s talk.

He tells us:

“I believe the result of modernistic worldliness in Christian form is hard cessationism.” ^[3]

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End Notes:

Back to note 1 — For example, this is why EC rock star pastor Rob Bell can argue for the heresy of Christian Universalism in his Love Wins mythology and still be considered an evangelical.

Back to note 2 — The corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), a repackaged Roman Catholic mysticism, taught by the dubious duo of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, along with his spiritual twin Dallas Willard, is openly recommended in that camp; often referred to as so-called Spiritual Formation.

Back to note 3 — Begins at 4:24 of the audio clip here: http://tiny.cc/jpe5r.

See also:

MARK DRISCOLL AND NEO-REFORMED NEW CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

TIM KELLER RECOMMENDING ROMAN CATHOLIC MYSTICISM

“GOOD” EXPERIENCES AREN’T NECESSARILY FROM GOD