billiefan2000
June 3rd, 2008, 11:04 AM
Pastor Responds to Brian McLaren’s ‘Everything Must Change’ Event
While reading this Herescope account of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change event in Goshen, Indiana, I had flashbacks to a cold, late autumn evening in Chicago at the Congress Plaza Hotel in 1993.
The Chicago Declaration II conference was taking place, and I decided to drive down to see what they had to say.
Everything this pastor describes at the Everything Must Change conference with McLaren was there at the Congress Hotel that night: the radical environmentalists, the political leftists, the feminists, the mystics and New Spirituality proponents. The only difference was that the left-wing “evangelicals” at the CDII event in 1993 didn’t hold a mainstream view within evangelicalism. Even Willow Creek back then wouldn’t have allowed Roberta Hestenes to get up and rail against glass ceilings for women in ministry.
The pastor’s description of the bizarre prayer intoned at McLaren’s event reminds me of the book I picked up at a CDII book table entitled, The Magic of Ritual, where the apostate professor/author of the book suggested that adding elements of voodoo ritual to Christian communion services would be a good thing.
This stuff was there in ‘93 and ‘83′ and beyond, but now, it’s mainstream on Christian college campuses and in evangelical churches. Progress has been made since that cold night in Chicago.
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=829
http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-everything-must-change.html
While reading this Herescope account of Brian McLaren’s Everything Must Change event in Goshen, Indiana, I had flashbacks to a cold, late autumn evening in Chicago at the Congress Plaza Hotel in 1993.
The Chicago Declaration II conference was taking place, and I decided to drive down to see what they had to say.
Everything this pastor describes at the Everything Must Change conference with McLaren was there at the Congress Hotel that night: the radical environmentalists, the political leftists, the feminists, the mystics and New Spirituality proponents. The only difference was that the left-wing “evangelicals” at the CDII event in 1993 didn’t hold a mainstream view within evangelicalism. Even Willow Creek back then wouldn’t have allowed Roberta Hestenes to get up and rail against glass ceilings for women in ministry.
The pastor’s description of the bizarre prayer intoned at McLaren’s event reminds me of the book I picked up at a CDII book table entitled, The Magic of Ritual, where the apostate professor/author of the book suggested that adding elements of voodoo ritual to Christian communion services would be a good thing.
This stuff was there in ‘93 and ‘83′ and beyond, but now, it’s mainstream on Christian college campuses and in evangelical churches. Progress has been made since that cold night in Chicago.
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=829
http://herescope.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-everything-must-change.html