PBS' Religion & Ethics Weekly Shows the Emerging Church in Action

PBS' Religion & Ethics Weekly
Shows the Emerging Church in Action

Willing to be Lost and Searching
Rather Than Accept the Gospel According to Jesus Christ

July 8th, 2005 - PBS' Religion & Ethics Weekly has just released a news story on the emerging church movement.

The story shows how far this movement's leaders are willing to go to bring a whole generation into their emergence. These leaders are compromising the gospel and keeping thousands of young people from hearing the true message of salvation.

The underlying foundation of the emerging church is New Age mysticism. With labyrinths, yoga, chanting and meditating, the emerging church is helping to unite all the world's religious traditions.

The three emerging church leaders featured in the PBS story, Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, and Tony Jones, speak of a new Christianity:

Doug Pagitt - "When people discover we are a church with a yoga class ... they sometimes assume that we're simply out to appeal to the cultural creatives and the neo-hippies." (p. 53, Reimagining Spiritual Formation)

Brian McLaren: Endorsing the back cover of Alan Jones' book, Reimagining Christianity, which says the doctrine of the Cross is a vile doctrine.

Tony Jones, author of Soul Shaper:"The first time I introduced this, the kids came in, and I had a candle going and a little incense burning and some Gregorian chant music on the CD player."

You may view a video clip of this story at their web site. You won't believe what you see!

PBS Airs Part II of the Emerging Church

See the Egyptian god symbol used in the "sanctuary" at the 25 second mark of this video. (courtesy of Christian Research Service)

Rick Warren and the Emerging Church

The question has been asked: Does Rick Warren, Purpose Driven Life pastor, endorse and promote the emerging church? According to his most recent (July 7, 2005) newsletter to pastors around the world, that answer is yes.

Along with remarks, links and articles about the emerging church, please notice at the bottom of Warren's newsletter the remarks by Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones.

In light of the fact that Rick Warren recently told Lighthouse Trails he wouldn't have put his name on Dan Kimball's book, The Emerging Church, had he known Brian McLaren's name would be there also, because he had "major disagreements with his views of the so-called emerging movement," one can only wonder why Brian McLaren and other emerging church leaders have taken such a prominent spot in Rick Warren's ministry.

"Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before Me[a] are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep." John 10: 7-11