The answer is HERE.
Related:
BRIAN MCLAREN OF EMERGING CHURCH TO CELEBRATE RAMADAN
apprising.org
Celebrating "Open" Inclusiveness
Part 9: The Emerging Church - Circa 1970
herescope.blogspot.com
'Evangelical Christians' now thanking Allah
'Islamic Antichrist' author attacks church commitment to Ramadan
www.wnd.com
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Update:
As emerging church leader and author Brian McLaren joins his Muslim friends in the fast of Ramadan this month, he has written (and recorded) a new song which you can listen to here:
Brian McLaren Sings To His “God”
christianresearchnetwork.com
Now, this is merely my opinion, but in light of his participation in Ramadan - never mind the purpose of biblical fasting - don't the words in his song (“oh majestic mystery…my small mind cannot explain you, I can only hold it open”) sound more like they are about a book than about God? (Note: It is said that “the Koran unveils the mystery of man, creation and the universe”…and “that its magnificent spiritual dominion and its majestic sacred rule has been continuing for centuries to illuminate the earth and the ages, time and space, and more and more people have been embracing it with perfect respect.”) [Source: How Can We Prove That the Koran is the Word Of God? @ www.theholybook.org]
Or is this vague song just about opening our minds to the no-name god, the universal higher power who can be found no matter which path you are on (minus Jesus)? The possiblities are endless. Here's another commentary on the song.
Here's the main thing. Can a Christian who participates in a religious fast commemorating the month that Mohammed received the divine Koran, still believe in the authority of the Bible?
Are we actually seeing a branch of the emerging "church" leaning away from the Holy Bible (and possibly towards the Koran)? What more will it take for Christian book store owners, pastors and youth leaders to wake up and see that certain books and authors are leading Christians away from the Bible?
Also see:
Who else supports Ramadan
righttruth.typepad.com
'Christians' celebrating Ramadan?
www.wnd.com
Brian McLaren to celebrate Ramadan with Muslim friends and mauls Scripture as justification for it!
truedsicernment.com
Fasting Without Hypocrisy, Part 1
Matthew 6:16-18
www.gty.org
Dr J Vernon McGee Q&A - Should Christians Fast?
www.youtube.com
The Five Deceptions Of Islam
www.tangle.com
*Watch more informative videos on Caryl TV.
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But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:17,18
But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.
Matthew 6:17,18
New Article:
Mohler: McLaren move dangerous and confusing
www.onenewsnow.com
7 comments:
Who knew? Attempting to choke down the first paragraph, I just learned that Jesus, Himself, "learned from the Syrophonecian woman and was inspired by her faith". {gag}
"Gag" is right, Robin. I gagged too.
Jesus "learned" nothing from the Syrophonecian woman and He certainly was not "inspired" by her faith. As the loving God that He is, He simply responded mercifully to her faith - just as He does to everyone who humbly comes to Him, believing.
My Bible commentary has this to say about Jesus' response to this woman's persistent begging:
"Jesus' words do not contradict the truth that God's message is for all people (Ps. 22:27; Isaiah 56:7; Matt. 28:19; Rom. 15:9-12). After all, when Jesus said these words, he was in Gentile territory on a mission to Gentile people. He ministered to Gentiles on many other occasions also. Jesus was simply telling the woman that Jews were to have the first opportunity to acept Him as the Messiah because God wanted them to present the message of salvation to the rest of the world (see Gen. 12:3). Jesus was not rejecting the Gentile woman. He may have wanted to test her faith, or He may have wanted to use the situation as another opportunity to teach that faith is available to all people.
'Dog' was a term the Jews commonly applied to Gentiles because the Jews considered these pagan people no more likely than dogs to receive God's blessing. Jesus was not degrading the woman by using this term; He was reflecting the Jews' attitude so as to contrast it with His own. The woman did not argue. Instead, using Jesus' choice of words, she agreed to be considered a dog as long as she could receive God's blessing for her daughter. Ironically, many Jews would lose God's blessing and salvation because they rejected Jesus, and many Gentiles would find salvation because they recognized and accepted Him."
The correct interpretation of these verses is so clear, in light of all of Scripture.
The bizarre and misleading interpretation Brian McLaren pulls out of these verses, leaves us with no doubt.
Lately, Brian McLaren is revealing the unmistakable wolfishness of his character and his agenda.
See Deut. 12:1-14; Deut.18:9-14 and Exodus 34:10-17 and 2 Corin. 6:14-18 and the book of Jeremiah.
I gaggeth with thee.
Did my last comment go through??
McLaren is nothing more that an all inclusive, New Age, Postmodern spiritualist.
When will the church wake up!
Makes me sick too!!!!!
Hi Vee,
You are right on.
(Did you make a previous comment on this post that didn't go through?)
Yep, I think I was impatient and didn't let the comment load properly. I just basically rewrote the comment and reposted it anyways.
Absolutely, Dee! And I would add that the only thing that "impressed" Jesus about any of us would be the hardness of our hearts. That we think we have anything to offer our God and Saviour is laughable at best. Major Ian Thomas sums it up quite succinctly: "It is the fact that Christ Himself is the very life content of the Christian faith. It is He who makes it 'tick'...Christ did not die simply that you might be saved from a bad conscience or even to remove the stain of past failure, but to 'clear the decks' for divine action." (quoted from The Saving Life of Christ, first page of Chapter 1)
Phil. 2:13 and Romans 5:10
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