Category: Brian McLaren
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 5, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Over at his website Emerging Church leader Brian McLaren shares Song to brighten your day and lift your heart … If you’re a regular reader of Apprising Ministries you’ll know that the first time I heard this childish ode to the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart—filled with pet Emergent Church straw […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Jim Trageser of North Country Times begins his February 5, 2010 piece Popular author McLaren to address local Episcopal conference by asking “What is an evangelical leader doing talking to a bunch of Episcopalians at a Methodist church?” Well, only in the postmodern world of Humpty Dumpty language could Brian McLaren even remotely be considered “an evangelical leader.” But […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Earlier today Apprising Ministries told you that Brian McLaren responded to Scot McKnight’s review of his book. McLaren, an influential leader in the Emergent Church (EC), is busy making the rounds promoting his latest book A New Kind of Christianity (ANKoC) where he may have made a tactical error in clearly laying out his updated version of old liberalism, which is really […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries showed you yesterday in Brian McLaren Has Moved Away From “Ancient-Future” Faith yet another former supporter of Emerging Church (EC) leader Brian McLaren recognizing that in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity (ANKoC) McLaren’s clearly layed out his updated version of old liberalism, i.e. a new form of Progressive Christianity. Of this Liberalism 2.0 EC […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues
The incredible lack of spiritual maturity in the current visible church has resulted in a corresponding lack of spiritual depth, i.e. biblical ignorance. Couple this with post-modern relativistic nonsense and we have the perfect environment for the growth and acceptance of what is biblically unChristian being accepted and declared Christian to the point that men […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
So says John H. Armstrong, president of ACT 3, in his blog post today Whither Brian McLaren? This is not to be seen as an endorsement of Armstrong by Apprising Ministries; but rather, I draw your attention to this piece from Armstrong because he tells us: I started reading Brian when his first book came out years ago. On […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has been covering the Emerging Church for half a decade now; and for the past year, I’ve been showing you how it was a Trojan Horse taken inside mainstream evangelicalism. At its core this Emergent Church (EC) has always been an existential rebellion against the final authority of the Bible i.e. a rejection of the proper Christian spirituality […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
“In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” (Jude 18) The New Gnostics Apprising Ministries has long been covering the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—that’s now morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and the detrimental effects of its core doctrine of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF) […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In the video below, emergent author Brian McLaren is interviewed by universalist Spencer Burke of The Ooze. In the interview, Burke is helping McLaren promote his latest book, A New Kind of Christianity, which is an open assault on the Word of God. To show how far McLaren’s rebellion has gone, he is now listed ing […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In recent posts such as Brian McLaren Invites You On His Quest To Destroy Christianity and New Kind Of Christianity Of Brian McLaren Is Old And False recently Apprising Ministries has informed you of the latest book by Brian McLaren. As you know McLaren, in addtion to being a leading guru in the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of […]
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