Category: Emergence Christianity
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. The aim of our charge is love […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Leonard Sweet
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) It’s Happening Now At An Unprecedented Rate This online apologetics and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Apprising Ministries is pleased to draw your attention to a post by pastor Rob Willmann, my fellow Christian Research Network contributor, called Rob Bell, Christianity Today, Twitter, and the Gospel?! Pastor Willmann explains: There’s a video I did a while back on Rob Bell (it’s at the end of the article). In particular, the video […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. (John 17:17, NASB) What Is True Remains True Whether It’s Believed Or Not Here below are a couple of common questions you will run into with people who’ve bought into the false philosophy of postmodernism e.g. the neo-liberal cult of Emerging Church and their objection to the concept of fixed, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 28, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster
…they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6, ESV) Neo-Reformed Contemplative Spirituality? In recent posts such as Acts 29 Network And Reformed Counter Reformation Spirituality? and Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being A Reformed Charismatic here at Apprising Ministries I’ve shared some concern […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 27, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Yesterday Emerging Church evangelical theologian Leonard Sweet tweeted: “Go tell your friends what great things the Lord has done for you” (Mark 5:19). The “good news” is about “great things” stories . . . (Online source) No Leonard Sweet, the Gospel is about repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Jesus’ Name; the great thing our Great […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 27, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to the below tweet from Rob Bell, the rock star pastor of the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church, and its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. It concerns his friend and co-teaching pastor Shane Hipps: (Online source) In the coming days, when the tsunami of apostasy headed toward mainstream evangelicalism finally hits, the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
See also: N.T. WRIGHT ON HOMEBREWED CHRISTIANITY N.T. WRIGHT SPEAKING AT REDEEMER NYC OF TIM KELLER INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW PERSPECTIVE(S) ON PAUL THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL—PART 1 THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL—PART 2 THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL—PART 3 A GOOD REASON FOR A MASS EXODUS FROM EVANGELICALISM…OR TO RECAPTURE ITS ORIGINAL MEANING
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to a few interesting pieces today, which because of postmodernism and interspirituality seem to intersect the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church. First, from the Christian Research Network: Apologist Chris Rosebrough’s must read article “Fascism Reborn” begins: Sixty-seven years ago, the combined blood, treasure and matériel of the free nations of Western Civilization […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has mentioned the Homebrewed Christianity podcast and Tripp Fuller, collaborator and disciple of progressive/process theologian Dr. Philip Clayton, in posts such as The Emerging Church And Progressive Christian Theology After Google and Tony Jones And Tripp Fuller On Theology After Google. Fuller’s co-host is Chad Crawford, whom I’m informed tweeted a bit ago: Our NT Wright interview […]
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