Faith Undone (3)

Ancient-Future Worship The emerging church embraces multi-sensory worship.  While many are bewildered as to why their churches are darkening their sanctuaries, setting up prayer stations with candles, incense, and icons, the promoters of the emerging church movement say they know exactly what they are doing by practising mysticism through music, rituals, worship and offering. and …

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Faith Undone (2)

Riding the Emerging Church Wave How far is this new kind of church willing to go to reach its objective?  Emerging church proponents say there is a new wave taking place and we have to hop on.  The wave is a Vintage Christianity, which in reality is an experience based religion.  Experience must be implemented …

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The Challenge of Pragmatism

A Blast from the Past Brian McLaren, Rob Bell, and others from the Emergent camp write and speak winsomely about what they are offering, but history, not to mention Scripture, suggests great caution must be exercised at this point. Church historian Iain Murray reminds us that 19th century “liberal theology very rarely presented itself as …

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