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| 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." |
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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom,"
"spiritual disciplines," and many others.
Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement. |
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"Nor
is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name [Jesus
Christ] under heaven
given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4: 12
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