As the emerging church progresses (or perhaps more fittingly, digresses), it has become increasingly more obvious that it is morphing into a mystical, monkish, green, interfaith thing.
For example, this little piece over at Apprising Ministries highlights last year's Emerging Church gathering ad, while moving on to show the latest mystical convergence happenings as birds of a feather converge together:
MYSTICAL INTERFAITH CONFERENCES IN THE EMERGING CHURCH
apprising.org
This is a concerning matter to me because Christians where I live, in a so called Bible belt, have been giving emerging moths like these a platform and passing around their spurious books and things like candy with little (or no) discernment. And that is not a good thing.
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Yesterday I went to a baby's dedication at a Church called 'Cross Culture'! I had no idea that I was stepping into something that really was not anything like a bible based Church!!!
I couldn't believe that the pastor was so excited about having guest speakers come who are native Americans and how they have a huge ministry in dream interpretation and dream weaving.
He spoke a lot about destiny and that the journey is the most important thing, not the destination, whether or not you believe in the after life was besides the point!
The pastor made it clear to me when we spoke that he was hesitant to call his congregation a Church as he hates labels. He went on to say that he showed his mission statement to the AoG pastors and they were not at all impressed. Whoah!!! AoG have fallen into apostasy anyways, and if they were not impressed with the mission statement I can't imagine it being any good.
The pastor didn't even read from the bible at all! He just sounded like a philosopher or motivational speaker who was very inclusive on every thing! In fact that is what he said to me, that he was not going to turn away people because they don't believe in Christ... he wanted to be relevant so that everyone can join in. He was sooo relevant to such a diverse number of cultures that he has failed in being relevant to the message of salvation!
Much more could be said, but you get the picture!
In Christ
Vee
Oh brother. Was it hard to sit there and not say anything? Another friend of mine told me of a similar "church" experience this morning during a visit to a local church...seems like the emerging church has had a world wide effect.
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