Here are three links that will make you laugh, but at the exact same time deliver a great point and should worry you. There is some hard truth to these advertisements, and while they are meant to be funny in their delivery, they are also meant to deliver truth, and I hope you see it and it awakens some concern within you about the destruction the Emergent church is doing to Christianity.
At one point I was one who was caught up as some of those others who liked to point out the good they are doing, and there is some good. But the problem is that if you are going to poison someone it has to be wrapped around good otherwise they are not going to swallow it without a fight. They will know what your are doing right away. On the otherhand, if it is wrapped nicely with a pretty bow (helping the poor and down trodden) and tastes great (fun people centered worship and casual come as you are dress) then it is easy to slip in the poison because the other senses are being numbed.
I have not had time to look over the entire site, so I am not in any way endorsing the site, but I do like these three "advertisements." Please do not confuse my recommending these three links with recommending the entire site, as that is not the truth at this particular time. It may be in the future once I have had time to look at it and read it, but at this time this is not the case. Enjoy the links!
http://www.sacredsandwich.com/advertisement18.htm
http://www.sacredsandwich.com/advertisement17.htm
http://www.sacredsandwich.com/advertisement13.htm
2 comments:
These are awesome, but are there redeeming qualities in postmodernist thinking? Are we throwing out a baby with the proverbial bathwater because we wish to dismiss a modus operandi that doesn't jive with orthodoxy?
Within the question: Are there redeeming qualities within postmodern thinking as a whole? Most definitely, but as it pertains to relative truth and moral relativism, most definitely not.
In the context of what I am saying in my snippet, I believe that when you refer to the baby it should be referred to as Christianity and the water then should be the emerging church. Then in this light you would just be throwing out the water and keeping the orthodox baby. The emerging thought is not of it's own as they would like to think they are, but an organism of Christianity as a whole. And when an organism becomes malignant then it needs to be removed, even amputated (keeping the baby, Christianity, and throwing out the water, emerging thought).
As I was saying in my short statements in the blog itself. I am coming to believe that the emerging church is becoming more like the cults out there in a lot of ways. They wrap their destruction, or poison, around evangelical and pentacostal words and doctrine (candy). This makes it easy to swallow and accept, but once this is done then it is easier to get people to continue to eat more and more with less and less candy and more and more poison (questioning atonement, hell, and all other orthodox standards of Christianity.
In light of this my thinking has moved this direction, and again, I was one of those trying to pull out the good of the movement, but there is just too much bad now. Some times we just have to amputate and learn from the mistakes. Why not say hey, let's help the poor and down trodden while remaining orthodox. Let's be relevant to people without losing relevancy to the Bible. Let's build our opinion from the Bible and not build the Bible around our opinion.
Personally, I think the Emerging Church is a fad that will play out in the next few years as they are moving down the slippery slope. Not being money driven, which I give credit for, like the Word of Faith movement, it will ultimately hurt them in a lot of ways financially.
They are also becoming very vocal with their challenges to orthodox teachings, which by the way do not come from modern thought, but predate many modern thought thinkers. They have not been hiding their poision long enough, as Word of Faith did, to take the right effect.
I think there a lot of comparisons on the roads the two groups take, though they utilize the exact opposite extremes to attract people. It is quite interesting when one looks at it closely.
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