It’s well known that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has long been a leader in exposing the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church and its unholy  trinity of apostates, Living Spiritual Teacher and EC guru Brian McLaren and his friends, universalist EC pastor Doug Pagitt of Solomon’s Porch and progressive “theologian in residence” Tony Jones.

All three of these wolves in sheep’s clothing profess to follow Big Tent Christianity (BTC); a new postmodern form of progressive liberalism—a Liberalism 2.0—sometimes referred to as Emergence Christianity, whichMcLaren began laying out in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity. You may also remember that I’ve told you e.g. in Jay Bakker Reflects The Sad Condition Of The Visible Church about gay-affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker, who heads up a rather rapscallion—and largely Biblically illiterate—bunch within the Emerging Church who’ve crowned themselves Outlaw Preachers.

Where this all connects can be seen in Doug Pagitt And Homosexual Sin, because part of their loathsome legacy together is bringing this new postmodern form of Progressive Christianity into the mainstream of squishy evanjellyfish; itself nearly spiritully comatose now from its embracing the current fad of Protestant evangelicals practicing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard.

I’ve mentioned many times before that this spurious CSM under the quise of Spiritual Formation, with it’s main vehicle of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—meditation in an altered state of consciousness—was a core doctrine from the EC’s evil inception. This is simply beyond refutation; and e.g. in Staff Of Saddleback Church Recommend Mystic Henri Nouwen—including Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren himself—you’ll see just how far this rebirth of Counter Reformation spirituality has spread.

This is the proper backdrop against which to consider the following. People like Richard Abanes, formerly an unofficial apologist for Rick Warren, and Dan Kimball a leader in the Emerging Church, have quite openly been critical of online apologetics and discernment ministries. For example, recently in A call for Christian discernment web sites to lovingly discern each other Dan Kimball told us he had a:

couple things I wanted to express as someone I know has been hurt from a recent series of inaccurate things reported on Christian “discernment” web sites and in the comments on those web sites. In fact, many people get hurt from these web sites all the time. So often from misrepresentation and those posting not having facts correct about people…

Jesus says we will be held accountable to our words (Matthew 12:36). And that out of the overflow of our heart our mouths speak (or our fingers type) – (Matthew 12:34). So what is in us and our hearts, comes spewing out easy through our fingers as we type. 
(Online source)

I will agree to a point; however, you might have seen that Apprising Ministries and its sister outreach Christian Research Network were off-line for the better part of the past two days. Well, the truth is both sites were hacked into by someone pretending to be from Russia, but whom my diligent Internet Sevice Provider traced to a city in California. They were successful in destroying most of my work from this month, and the reason I now bring this up is so you’ll know 1) these websites are literally under attack every day, and 2) I don’t know anyone following ministries like mine who would do something like this.

Perhaps its time to turn some attention upon the followers of people like Jay Bakker and Doug Pagitt and Dan Kimball. Maybe the time has come to more closely examine the fruit of the neo-liberal cult they have, at best, contributed to; and at worst have quite literally created. O sure, such as these talk their “love talk” to receive public accolades, but their actions don’t always line up. To paraphrase Dan Kimball:

many people get hurt from these Emerging Church web sites all the time. So often from misrepresentation and those posting not having facts correct about people who do online apologetics and discernment work…

Jesus says we will be held accountable to our words, and our actions (Matthew 12:36). And that out of the overflow of our heart our mouths speak (or our fingers hack into websites) – (Matthew 12:34). So what is in us and our hearts, comes spewing out easy through our fingers as we type false html code to crash websites and interfere with another’s livelihood.

I’m just sayin’…

See also:

FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PROFESSOR TONY JONES AND CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY COHORT

BRIAN MCLAREN SPEAKS AS A UNIVERSALIST

MENTAL OFF-ROADING RADIO WITH DOUG PAGITT AND MICHAEL DOWD

BIG TENT CHRISTIANITY IS A POSTMODERN PROGRESSIVE LIBERALISM

THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON OTHER RELIGIONS 

THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON CHRIST

THE NEW DOWNGRADE AND ITS APOSTLES OF UNBELIEF