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The Emerging Church Loves To Drink

Sep/13/12 08:16

The following is excerpted from our new book WHAT IS THE EMERGING CHURCH? This is a thorough examination of the emerging church, a name that describes a new approach to missions and church life among some “evangelicals” for these present times. Nothing has made us more conscious of the vicious battle that is raging for the very life and soul of Bible-believing churches than the research into the emergent church. It is frightful, because so many are falling into devil’s trap and so many more will doubtless fall in the coming days. At the same time, it is exciting, because it reminds us that the hour is very, very late and we need to be busy in the Lord’s service and always “looking up.” I have made a great effort to understand the emerging church. In the past several months I have read more than 80 books and a great many articles by emerging church leaders and their teachers. In reality, the emerging church is simply the latest heresy within the broad tent of evangelicalism. When the “new evangelicalism” swept onto the scene in the late 1940s with its bold repudiation of “separatism” and its emphasis on dialogue with heretics, the door was left open for every sort of heresy to infiltrate the “evangelical” fold, and that is precisely what has happened. The Bible does not warn in vain, “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners” (1 Corinthians 15:33).

OUTLINE:
I. What Is the Emerging Church?
II. A Great Blending and Merging. It is difficult to draw a strict line between the two streams of the emerging church, because there is a blending and merging going on that will cause all lines to be blurred eventually.
III. The Liberal Emerging Church and Its Errors.
IV. The Conservative Emerging Church and Its Errors.
V. Cain the First Emerging Church Worshiper.
VI. Charles Spurgeon Exposed the Emerging Church.
VII. Index.

489 pages. $19.95 [see the book HERE]

Having read about 80 books by emergent church writers over the last several months, I have been impressed with the fact that they love to drink.

The book Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five Perspectives, for example, contains probably a dozen references to the joys of drinking. The contributors are Karen Ward, Mark Driscoll, John Burke, Dan Kimball, and Doug Pagitt. They meet in bars and taverns for theological discussions. They exchange beer-making techniques.

Some members of Spirit Garage meet in an Irish bar in downtown Minneapolis on Wednesday for a weekly Theology Pub, a mix of biblical discussion and beer (“Hip New Churches Pray to a Different Drummer,” New York Times, Feb. 18, 2004).

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Should Bible Believing Churchs Require Abstinence From Alcoholic Beverages?

Feb/09/09 07:32

Enlarged February 9, 2009 (first published March 2, 2006) (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org) - Through the years I have received letters and e-mails from pastors who are challenged by people in regard to requiring church members to abstain from alcoholic beverages. The following is a compilation of a couple of these that I have received. I received an e-mail from a pastor who said that he is counseling some people in his church about the issue of wine. After reading the late Bruce Lackey’s article “Did Jesus Make Alcoholic Wine?” some said they did not agree with his reasoning and would not give up drinking unless they could see that this is something that is clearly taught in Scripture. COMPILATION OF LETTERS FROM PASTORS ABOUT REQUIRING ABSTINENCE FROM ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES Hello, Brother Cloud: We recently did a study on wine and I used your Way of Life Encyclopedia study which Dr. Bruce Lackey wrote.
I must say I was quite taken back with some of the responses and questions that arose, and I’m strugglingContinue reading this article……

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