The modern Church faces assault on all sides from the ‘world’ — the last thing it needs is the presence of a ‘fifth column’ within its ranks, which is effectively what the Emerging Church is. Its abandoning of absolutes and betrayal of Christ’s message for a more ‘relevant’ Gospel endangers not only the Church Universal by its pernicious influence, but more seriously, condemns the ‘unsaved’ by failing to guide them to the Truth. The Emerging Church reminds me of the story I once heard, about a city during the Crusades — surrounded by baying armies, its theologians spent their time simply discussing what colour the Virgin Mary’s eyes were (and since I’m a Catholic, I’m allowed to make the comparison). Men and women going to Hell (despite Brian McLaren’s opinion) and the Emerging Church giving them more than a helping hand to arrive at that destination.
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krokodil or the emergent church as necessity
The church in all times has been in the business of making itself more relevant to the needs of folk who differ from those who are already members. James and the council at Jerusalem, the various creedal and doctrinal councils, Martin Luther & the processes of the Reformation, etc.
The emergent church is no more a fifth column than a human is a fish simply because they share the same pond! The questions of relevance, what it means to be a Christian NOW , ways to live the Gospel in today’s world, all these are our job as Christians to work through in our own minds as the Christians of yesterday did in their time, in their cultures.
As far as Hell is concerned while the scriptures force me to consider that it may exist, no scripture compels me to consider it peopled now (and if we take Jesus’ statement in John 12 seriously) or ever.
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This is the stuff of which holocausts are made
I lived in South Africa during the Apartheid era. Those churches that made a stand against Apartheid were labelled the Progressive Churches. What set them apart was the fact that they were absolutely committed to the fact that the Gospel was directly, immediately and savingly relevant to the situation of Apartheid. The Gospel meant that the Church could neither support Apartheid nor do nothing, on the grounds that the Gospel was about people’s souls and spiritual life, not their political and economic lives.
Take Ivan’s post. Substitute “the Porgressive Churches” for “the Emerging Church” and you have word for word the sort of polemic used by apologists for Apartheid. Then, as my wife is so fond of saying, “Go figure!”