“The emerging church” should be called “the merging church.” While they pride themselves on their tolerance of all who are so tolerant, they allow anything whatever into the mix of their creed-less creed. And, of course, if you keep combining color upon color, you will only get a bathroom brown.
Plus, (sudden metaphor switch coming) while trying to make a stew of religion, they forget flavor-enhancing salt. Though their soup has many mild herbs of pop psychology thrown in, it remains bland and worthless.
From a typical Emerging Church website (emergingchurch.info.): “Whilst the traditional church continues to battle between the conservatives and the liberals, and between the Catholics and the evangelicals, the emerging church has been emphasizing the need for right engagement in context – or what has been called orthopraxis" (sounds like something old people wear!) rather than orthodoxy (right thinking)." Does this mean they are for Wrong thinking?! "It has avoided getting involved in this tennis match over orthodoxy. The emerging church has been focusing on ‘doing’ church in a post modern context, which is all about being and doing church in our liquid modern times" (veggie stew with nasty stuff thrown in) "which has created a new context of a culture of the spiritually restless and spiritual searching, or the openness of many to be spiritual tourists "(in other words, questions are "good" but answers are "bad," very bad). "Many emerging churches, have sought to draw on the best of the old and reframe it for our current post-modern context, in what has been called ‘ancient-future’". Now there's an oxymoron! Apparently merging churcers are supposed to be tourists instead of tennis players (tennis can be strenuous and there might be a winner and a loser. But Reality Check, Emerger Mergers, everyone is in the game. There are no neutral spectator tourists. And whatever happened to being in but not of the world? And what’s wrong with a tennis match? …Anyways, please accept the editorializing along with everything else if you are an emergent churcher, "the emerging church tries to hold to the tension of having a high regard towards God and the scriptures…” Is that so?! Okay, that’s enough already. What about that glaring, "I am the way, the truth, the life" verse about how "no one gets to the Father except through Me (Christ)" ? Countless such verses contradict the merging church’s orthodoxy that everyone’s going to heaven or no one. More later.
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Nail on the head, as usual. This is definitely the way many churches are heading... the Presbyterian church is a great example (http://www.radioiowa.com/2007/09/26/presbyterian-leader-says-bible-makes-case-for-homosexuals/)
They don't seem to understand that you can truly LOVE people without condoning their actions. Instead they prefer to adopt the motto, "we're all okay!"
The truth is that I'm not okay, you're not okay, and certain actions are certainly not okay.
Of course, I've seen the flip side philosophy in action, too: "you're not okay, but I'm okay, and I'll judge you for everything."
I have definitely noticed this mentality among my peers lately. It's sad because they are hurting, not helping others. I don't believe anyone is truly happy unless they are in God's will. Even if someone says, "You're ok," to someone who's clearly not in God's will, that person will still not be happy, and worse, if they don't have a real relationship with God they will not go to heaven.
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