Well it’s been almost a year since I have posted anything on this blog. To be honest, I have not had the time or energy to keep up with things. I also have found trying to keep up with all the false teaching or global warming propaganda just about impossible and as a result somewhat depressing. I think a better tact is to be more about preaching and teaching the truth of God’s word.
All that being said, I will resume chiming in from time to time when I feel it’s necessary. Now is one of those times.
Recently I have been listening to a good Christian podcast called, ‘Fighting For The Faith’. The host, Chris Roseborough had a really good insight the other day about the church when he said, what was considered post modern/ emergent back in 2003 has now become part of the main stream in evangelicalism. I totally agree and I think it’s absolutely unbelievable how undiscerning the church has become.
On recent shows he has played audio of Shane Hipps teaching eastern New Age mystical meditation from the pulpit at Mars Hill Church where Rob Bell is the senior pastor, John Ortberg interviewing Dallas Willard where Willard comes up with the most convoluted interpretation of John 14:6 I have ever heard. His interpretation basically promotes a doctrinal position of universalism. He and Ortberg also put forth the idea that Christians that hold to the idea of salvation through Christ alone are arrogant. This is significant because both Ortberg and Willard have been considered very much a part of the evangelical mainstream for many years.
On the same show, Roseborough also played audio of an interview with N.T. Wright. In the interview Wright basically makes fun of Christians that hold to a literal interpretation of Genesis. This is incredibly relevant to me right now as I am currently leading ‘The Truth Project’ at out church and Monday evenings at our house. We just finished discussing this topic the last couple of weeks.
Last night I was on Facebook and saw a post from ‘Dundee For Christ’ (Dundee fir Christ is a ministry that promotes Christian events in Dundee, Scotland) promoting Rob Bell coming to Scotland. This breaks my heart because Scotland doesn’t need this rubbish going over there. I left a comment voicing my displeasure explaining how Bell has promoted in his book, Velvet Elvis’, the idea that essential doctrines such as the virgin birth and trinity are not that important. The response I got was that Rob was doing great things for the church because of his cutting edge creativity. There was no response in regard to issues of essential Christian doctrine. My comment was also deleted and I was de-friended from ‘Dundee For Christ’s’ facebook friend list. I did send them a response with some links for them to listen to. We’ll see what happens.
That’s enough for now but there is much more that could be said.
Here are some links to the programs listed above:
http://www.extremetheology.com/2010/02/is-dallas-willard-a-christian.html
http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/2010/01/the-fatally-incorrect-assumption-of-the-emergent-church.html
http://www.fightingforthefaith.com/2010/02/is-dallas-willard-a-christian.html
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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