THE EMERGENT CHURCH HERESY


The Emergent Church Heresy
Christians today should be aware of and also beware of a growing heretical movement that is generally labelled the “Emergent Church” movement. This movement is crossing denominational lines and making inroads into evangelical and charismatic churches. It presents itself as another step forward in church development and likens itself to the Reformation. The Reformation and the charismatic movement were moves away from man-made traditions and back to Biblical truth and to practices of the early Christian church as presented in the book of Acts and in the writings of the New Testament scripture. The Emergent Church doctrines, however, lay scripture aside and draw from the philosophies of eastern religions.

The emergent church which claims to be divine revelation for the Quantum era actually takes its teaching from Zen Buddhism and eastern religions. While professing to be contemporary, they base their practices and beliefs on “ancient traditions” which basically were born within eastern religions which are unbiblical and amount to idolatry.
The movement does not emphasize the Bible as its foundational authority, but rather leans heavily on non-biblical “ancient traditions” from eastern religions.

They speak of “obeying the inner voice” rather than obeying the Bible. Naïve Christians who are lured into this error assume the inner voice is the Holy Spirit. The problem is that the scripture warns us to hold to the traditions that the apostles gave us (the Bible). We are told that if anyone, or even an angel, preaches anything other than the Gospel presented to us by the Apostle Paul, let him be accursed. We are told that the written word of God is surer than even a voice from heaven. The Holy Spirit does speak to Christians, but we must remember that the Bible is our standard by which we judge and test the spirits and any revelation or message we hear. The “inner voice” will deceive us if we do not stand on the Bible itself. Emergent church leaders are selective regarding which scripture they believe and which verses they quote. Anyone placing themselves in the arrogant position of judging scripture rather than letting the scripture be the judge is placing himself in a very spiritually dangerous place. And anyone who lays the Bible aside in order to listen to and obey an “inner voice” will be deceived.
The movement teaches that everyone should seek the divine that is within. They do not teach repentance or the need to turn from sin. The Bible teaches that man is a sinner and needs to be saved. The emergent church teaches that God is in everyone and they must simply find Him by searching within and by getting in tune with the frequencies of the universe. This is pantheism.

I have read material and listened to messages taught by people in this movement. They do not preach the Bible, Christ, or the gospel as presented in the New Testament, but rather such practices as meditation, centering prayer, and the false-self concept,  all of which come from Buddhism, Hinduism, and new age philosophy, and which open people up to demonic forces. 

The claim is that they are reaching contemporary society, people in the world, and Christians who are disillusioned with church as they have known it.  The problem is they are not bringing these people to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the true church but to a form of eastern religion dressed in the skin of Christianity. They profess a love that accepts everyone. Everyone is told to “come as you are.”  The difference is that Jesus calls us to “come as we are” but sin no more. Jesus said that the king’s servants gathered in all whom they found, both good and bad. And the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in and saw a man who did not have on a wedding garment, He cast him out (Mt 22:8-14). Peter said that the Lord is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:9).
The emergent church heresy rejects Jesus as the only way to heaven, casts doubt on scripture itself, and questions the basic foundational doctrines of scripture, replacing them with eastern religion and new age philosophy which is a form of idolatry.

For those seriously interested, I recommend watching the following documentary, “The Roots of the Emergent Church,” which describes in detail the false teachings in this movement and shows clips of their messages. Just click on this link. The documentary starts out with a blank screen with only audio but followed quickly by the video. 
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=The+Root+of+the+Emerging+Church&&view=detail&mid=5BF515B8C3E81CEB84D35BF515B8C3E81CEB84D3&FORM=VRDGAR

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mrs Parker's Electric Paddle

We Knew It Was For Our Good When I was a kid there was discipline and order in the classroom. Teachers could actually teach, and kids could actually learn. We had a healthy fear of punishment, and we knew it would certainly come if we deserved it.   A ll of us kids instinctively knew it was not abuse, but a justified response to misbehavior and rebellion, or an attempt to prevent us from doing things that were dangerous or harmful. We knew our parents and teachers (generally speaking) loved us and were trying to educate us and train us to be mature and responsible. Mrs. Parker's Electric Paddle In my third year of elementary school, we moved from the old, white, wooden schoolhouse into a new brick facility.   When I stepped off the bus onto the new school grounds, the word was going around that our principal, Mrs. Parker, had an electric paddle installed in her new modern office. None of us wanted to face that mysterious and unknown instrument. Whenever one of the boys was sent
Read more

"That Way I Can Kill the Whole Bird With One Stone."

Just as truth can be stranger than fiction, reality can sometimes be funnier than jokes. Therefore, I try to keep track of unusual things I hear people say. Below is a list of word-abuses that I have heard over the last few years. These friends and acquaintances did not realize they were corrupting a word or using the wrong word. The following sentences were spoken in earnest. A fellow told me he did not want to sound self-defecating . A second cousin told me her sister had an infection in her influfial tubes . One man said he suffered from sick-as-hell-anemia . The hospital had to place a lady’s husband in contentious care . Another man was in there with a brain hemorrhoid . A fellow told me a family member had immaculate degeneration . One man said he had problems with his heart rhythm, but the doctors had decided not to install a space-maker . A friend told me, “While I am in town, I’ll go by and pay the fine and also return Joel’s guitar. That way I can kill the whole bird with one
Read more

Some Thoughts on the Manifested Presence of God

John 15: 19. “A little longer, and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me...” Rev. 1: 10-17. “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice as of a trumpet…And I turned to see the voice that spoke to me…and His countenance was like the sun shining in its strength…” 1 Cor. 15: 3-8. “…He rose again on the third day…and was seen…by Cephas…by the twelve…by over five hundred brethren at once…and after that He was seen by me also….” To see or not to see? The natural man comprehends God in the same way as a blind and deaf man would view a brilliant sunrise or listen to beautiful music. He would be oblivious to the wonders around him no matter how brilliant the sight or how loud the sound. The revelation of God works on the same principle. The person who has a heart after God will see or hear Him in the smallest sign, while the one who has rejected God in his heart will see nothing or explain it away, no matter how powerful the Presence or how obvious th
Read more