November 2, 2009
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Quasi-universalist Doug Pagitt, a leader within the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—has been sending a series of tweets promoting his book A Christianity Worth Believing. For example, the other day Pagitt he says:
Video promo 4 for my book, A Christianity Worth Believing. This one on sin – http://is.gd/4GsxR Order here… (Online source)
That link takes you to the You Tube video below, for which Pagitt provides the following intro:
For anyone looking for a hopeful faith but feel put off by the versions of faith they have heard, Doug Pagitt offers the book A Christianity Worth believing.
Hmm, “the versions of faith”; in rather typical fashion of those in the EC—this is a bit vague. But presuming Pagitt means of the Christian faith, then based on what you hear below, his “Christianity Worth believing” might be better described the way a friend of mine likes to put it: The Christianity I Cobbled Together In My Basement.
See also:
EMERGING CHURCH PASTOR DOUG PAGITT
BOB DEWAAY AND CHRIS ROSEBROUGH ON THE EMERGING CHURCH
THE EMERGING CHURCH HIGHJACKING EVANGELICALISM
THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS
THE EMERGING CHURCH SOWING ITS NEO-ORTHODOX CONFUSION ON SCRIPTURE
THE EMERGING CHURCH HATES THE LIGHT
TONY JONES ON CHRISTIANITY 21 APOSTASIA-PALOOSA
November 2, 2009
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Marcus Pittman, baptized during Ambassadors Academy #11. Here’s Marcus Pittman’s baptism and testimony. Absolutely wonderful. Amen.
Marcus was baptized by Tony Miano…..but in Christ! Amen!
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November 2, 2009
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You’ll be able to watch the SermonIndex Conference with Paul Washer streaming here (The following text is written by SermonIndex):
Here’s where it’s being held:
November 13-14th (4pm Start on Friday).
Unit 2B Ballyboggan Industrial Estate
Ballyboggan Road
Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
November 2, 2009
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November 2, 2009
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After viewing Rob Bell’s presentation of his false, heretical gospel recently, it was difficult, at the time, for me to imagine more disheartening news for the day. I was wrong. I appreciate the hard work and dedication of those at Apprising.org, and I am truly thankful to God for a site that actually keeps us up [...]
November 2, 2009
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For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)
In the early days, when Christianity exercised a dominant influence over American thinking, men and women conceived the world to be a battleground. Our fathers believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force, and they believed in God and righteousness and heaven as the other. By their very nature, these forces were opposed to each other forever in deep, grave, irreconcilable hostility.
Humans, our fathers held, had to choose sides-they could not be neutral. For them it must be life or death, heaven or hell, and if they chose to come out on God’s side they could expect open war with God’s enemies. The fight would be real and deadly and would last as long as life continued here below. People looked forward to heaven as a return from the wars, a laying down of the sword to enjoy in peace the home prepared for them….
How different today. The fact remains the same, but the interpretation has changed completely. People think of the world, not as a battleground, but as a playground. We are not here to fight; we are here to frolic. We are not in a foreign land; we are at home. We are not getting ready to live, but we are already living, and the best we can do is rid ourselves of our inhibitions and our frustrations and live this life to the full. TWP004-005.
“Help me to be willing to take a stand for righteousness, to choose clearly to be on Your side against the enemy, to pay any price–and then to look forward to laying down my sword later in heaven. Amen.” (A.W. Tozer, Tozer on Christian Leadership, November 2)
November 2, 2009
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by Michael Spencer
Come follow me, and I will make you all mushy
Jesus, I am so in love with You
-Matt Redman
Let what we do in here, fill the streets out there. Let us dance for you (x2)
All of my life, and nothing less, I offer You, my righteousness
- Charlie Hall, “Madly”
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, vast, unmeasured, boundless, free!Rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me!Underneath me, all around me, is the current of Thy loveLeading onward, leading homeward to Thy glorious rest above!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, spread His praise from shore to shore!How He loveth, ever loveth, changeth never, nevermore!How He watches o’er His loved ones, died to call them all His own;How for them He intercedeth, watcheth o’er them from the throne!
O the deep, deep love of Jesus, love of every love the best!’Tis an ocean full of blessing, ’tis a haven giving rest!O the deep, deep love of Jesus, ’tis a heaven of heavens to me;And it lifts me up to glory, for it lifts me up to Thee!
-Samuel Francis
The times, they are a-changin’. We have gone from singing about the overwhelming, faithful, constant, covenant love of Jesus Christ for Christians, to singing about the most changeable, gullible and frothy of human emotions- romantic love. These days, our worship is full of announcing that we are “in love” with Jesus.
If the problem were simply music, I’d leave it alone. Better people than this writer have painfully noted the “God is my girlfriend” bent of modern praise and worship music. In fact,
the brilliant people over at Lark News have taken us over the edge into the possibility that Wal-mart might have to ban certain Vineyard worship CDs in the future for their explicit lyrics. The satirical article says “The ground-breaking — some say risqué — album includes edgy worship songs such as “My Lover, My God,” “Touch Me All Over,” “Naked Before You,” “I’ll Do Anything You Want,” “Deeper” and “You Make Me Hot with Desire.” If you think that’s over the top, you aren’t listening to much CCM these days.
Some very sharp culture watchers have traced the influence of romanticism and romantic language on evangelical piety over the last two centuries. A hymn like Samuel Francis’s “In The Garden” could be interpreted in several ways, but the romantic interpretation is the most obvious. Such a hymn could only be accepted and become popular in an evangelicalism that had already been considerably influenced by femininization and romantic imagery.
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November 2, 2009
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“That which is born of the flesh is flesh.” - John 3:6
“There is no promise made that in this life, we shall be set free from the indwelling and the in-working of sin.
Many think that their flesh is to become “progressively holier and holier” that sin after sin is to be removed gradually out of the heart until at last they are almost made perfect in the flesh. But this is an idle dream, and one which, sooner or later will be crudely and roughly broken to pieces.
The flesh will ever remain the same and we shall ever find that the flesh will lust against the Spirit. Our fleshly nature is corrupt to the very core. It cannot be mended. It cannot be sanctified. It is the same at the last, as it was at the first inherently evil, and as such will never cease to be corrupt until we put off mortality and with it the body of sin and death.
All we can hope for, long after, expect, and pray for is that this evil fleshly nature may be subdued, kept down, mortified, crucified, and held in subjection under the power of grace. But as to any such change passing upon the flesh or taking place in the flesh as to make it holy it is but a pharisaic delusion, which, promising a holiness in the flesh, leaves us still under the power of sin.
The true sanctification of the new man of grace which is wrought by a divine power is utterly distinct from any imagined holiness in the flesh or any vain dream of its progressive sanctification.” – J.C. Philpot
