Category: Emergence Christianity
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 15, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. (Romans 1:21-22, NASB) Evangelicalism Cutting Loose The Anchor Of God’s Word The quote following below concerning the authority of the Bible comes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 13, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apparently it’s a slow day in the world of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is a cult of postliberalism now within mainstream evangelicalism. And continuing with Dr. Walter Martin On Apostasy Circa 1985, it happens to be my view that this EC Liberalism 2.0—as direct descendants of what the late cult expert called the Cult of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 13, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Here in this short post at Apprising Ministries I bring to your attention a very grave problem now affecting the mainstream of the church visible today. And that would be a huge misunderstanding concerning the nature of the spiritual warfare, which every genuine Christian is immediately thrust into the moment they are first regenerated by God the Holy Spirit. In the last couple of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 12, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Professing to be wise, they became fools. (Romans 1:22, NASB) I’ll Just See What I Want To See… This is a follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Ken Silva And Cathlimergent Network where I showed you that John Sobert Sylvest, who started something called Cathlimergent Conversations: Catholics in the Emerging Church Conversation, tweeted the following concerning my article Roman […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 8, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Prince […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In a very interesting, and timely post today at Pyromaniacs, Phil Johnson places some excerpts “from an editorial Charles Spurgeon published in The Sword and the Trowel in 1871, more than a decade before the famous Downgrade Controversy.” If you don’t know, this was Spurgeon’s dealing with what the late cult expert Dr. Walter Martin […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
I’ve talked before here at Apprising Ministries about what I call the “plus-minus apologetic.” By that I mean, we know e.g. an author is against a given topic; but he still begins his article with a few items in the plus category before moving on to the many things in the minus category, until we then reach the […]
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