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Brian McLaren on New Age Vision Project Emerging Church Leader, Brian McLaren, Teams Up with Interspiritualist Marcus Borg Brian McLaren's New Book, The Secret Message of Jesus Brian
McLaren: A Prime Example Of Diaprax! Christianity
Defaced as Leader of Emergent Church Movement Embraces Mysticism Christian Leaders Network Towards Dangerous Venture Ding
Dong, Ding Dong, Wake Up Leonard Sweet! Review
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Brian
McLaren:
Abortion, Sexual Tolerance and Moral Standards
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"McLaren
is the unofficial leader of the 'emergent church' movement,
which emphasizes environmentalism and racial and sexual tolerance,
while distancing itself from the social conservatism of the
religious right.... But many Christians object to McLaren's
message, particularly his permissive attitude toward issues
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Brian
McLaren Endorses Reimagining Christianity by New Ager Alan
Jones This is the Alan Jones who said the doctrine of the Cross is a vile doctrine and whose book has Brian McLaren 's name on the back cover. The book? Reimagining Christianity. McLaren
picked for one of top 25 most influential evangelicals. NEWS
ALERT! With
the endorsement by Brian
McLaren on the back cover of The Seeker's Way, we now know
that McLaren is aligned with the interspirituality movement- |
Brian McLaren - New Age/Mystic/Contemplative
"[T]his is one of the huge problems with the traditional understanding of hell, because if the Cross is in line with Jesus' teaching, then I won't say the only and I certainly won't say ... or even the primary or a primary meaning of the Cross ... is that the Kingdom of God doesn't come like the kingdoms of this world by inflicting violence and coercing people. But that the kingdom of God comes thru suffering and willing voluntary sacrifice right? But in an ironic way the doctrine of hell basically says no, that's not really true. At the end God get's his way thru coercion and violence and intimidation and uh domination just like every other kingdom does. The Cross isn't the center then, the Cross is almost a distraction and false advertising for God." Brian McLaren speaking, From the Interview
Time Magazine names McLaren one of 25 most influential evangelical leaders. Maybe the New Evangelicalism, but not a leader to the body of Jesus Christ.
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Where is the Kingdom of God? How inclusive is it? Who defines the terms? Today's emerging church has already moved the boundaries of His Kingdom. It has redefined God's Word and is fast embracing the latest versions of the old Gnostic quest for secret knowledge (gnosis) and self-actualization, whether through mystical experience or collective imagination.
Stamping out faith in Biblical absolutes is central to this transformation. A mind anchored in God's Word won't compromise, but when that anchor is removed, the current of change can carry that mind anywhere. As Jesuit scholastic, Mark Mossa, wrote in his endorsement of Brian McLaren's latest book: "The Secret Message of Jesus challenges us to put aside our sterile certainties about Christ and reconsider the imaginative world of Jesus stories, signs and wonders." Read Entire Article, Who Defines the Kingdom of God (a critique of The Secret Message of Jesus)
McLaren
Redefines Christianity An Enemy
of the Cross? In
the midst of the Purpose Driven craze and an apparently sleeping
church, Brian McLaren has endorsed a book that calls the doctrine
of the Cross a vile doctrine. That book? None other than Alan Jones' new book, Reimagining Christianity. Alan Jones is an interspiritualist and mystic. Take a look at the Living Spiritual Teachers Project, of which Jones is involved. This group of about twenty-five includes Zen and Buddhist monks, New Agers and even Marianne Williamson and her Course in Miracles. "Brian McLaren wants us to learn more about 'meditative practices, about which Zen Buddhism has said much. To talk about different things is not to contradict one another; it is, rather, to have much to offer one another' (A Generous Orthodoxy, p. 255.) Can Zen Buddhism have something to offer that would improve a Christian's spiritual life when the Bible teaches us that we are already partakers of Christ Jesus' divine nature? (2 Peter 1:3-11) McLaren cites contemplative meditation promoter Richard Foster as one of the key mentors for the Emergent movement."—Spiritual Fusion: East comes West, Mike Oppenheimer, Let Us Reason Ministries New
Age Leonard Sweet
 and Brian McLaren have a new book. A is for Abductive: The Language of the Emerging Church "McLaren reveals his true stripes when he goes on, in the same article, to make this uninspiring judgment: 'I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.' What else can this mean but that McLaren denies the teachings of the conservative Christian community of which he pretends to be a part? What else can this mean but that those who ascribe to the faith’s historic fundamentals are just as doctrinally retarded as those who mock the fundamentals?" —Anthony Paul Mator, Postmodern Antiquity: "Emerging Church" Claims Pre-Modern Roots
 When
Brian McLaren endorsed the back cover of Dave
Fleming's book, "The
Seeker's Way," did he agree with Fleming who made
the following remarks in his book?:
"A seeker admits the limits of particular belief systems and acknowledges that God is far bigger than any human being's conceptions." "The path of Jesus does not lead so much to assurance as to adventure and transformation." Read more of Dave Fleming's book, "The Seeker's Way." In The Seeker's Way, Dave Fleming writes favorably about the following panentheist authors: Wayne Teasdale Alan Jones Joan Chittister Marcus Borg By McLaren's endorsing of this book, he is helping to lead countless young, seeking people right into the arms of a New Age spirituality and away from the arms of Jesus Christ.
Several
years back, you (Chuck Colson)tried to bring Evangelicals
and Catholics together, an effort which I applaud and in which
I am involved myself." (In
a letter
to Chuck Colson on Youth Specialties web site.)
Brian
McLaren
of the "emerging church" calls contemplative
Richard Foster the key
mentor for the movement. Christianity Today, November 2004 "[H]e (Brian McLaren)concludes that the emerging church must be "monastic"—centered on training disciples who practice, rather than just believe, the faith.... He cites Dallas Willard and Richard Foster, with their emphasis on spiritual disciplines, as key mentors for the emerging church"
"One
other thing I want to do for you, if you are going through
a low tide of faith. I want to encourage you to step up to
a new level of Christian thinking by investigating some new
authors and speakers....The fact that your faith is struggling
means that you need some new teachers.... Philip
Yancey ... Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Walker
Percy and Thomas Merton."—Brian
McLaren, Doubt
"Asked
at a conference last spring what he thought about gay marriage,
Brian McLaren replied, 'You know what, the thing that
breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without
hurting someone on either side.'" from
Time magazine.
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"[P]erhaps we have so over-emphasized the role of songs in worship - to the exclusion of many other liturgical options (poetry, historic prayers, silence, meditative reading" more |
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Who
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(These are his book recommendations from his website.) Ken Wilber (Mystic) Huston Smith Peter Senge (Buddhist) Brueggemann, Walter |