Sing4Him
June 19th, 2007, 10:10 AM
Author and pastor sounds warning about 'emergent church'
Allie Martin
OneNewsNow.com
June 19, 2007
Pastor and author John MacArthur says evangelical churches must be on guard against post-modernism and the emerging church. His new book says many church-going Christians are caught in a crossfire of teaching and writing that promotes alternative Christian histories and a push to eliminate absolute truth.:tsk::tsk:
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http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/06/author_and_pastor_sounds_warni.php
In his book The Truth War; Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception, Dr. John MacArthur sounds a warning about the growing influence of the emerging church movement. The battle for truth, he says, is raging not only in society, but throughout the church.
"I think the emergent church, at its foundation, is unwilling to acknowledge propositional truth," MacArthur says. "And their spin is that the Bible is not that clear.
"We know there is absolute, objective, propositional truth. The fallout of rejecting that is pretty clear," he continues. "The apostles in the New Testament said 'We're begotten again by the Word of Truth.' If you don't have the true gospel, you can't be saved.":amen
He says the growing emergent church movement is in line with post-modernism. "Post-modernism simply is this idea that there is no absolute truth," MacArthur explains. "If that comes into the church, then that's not the church. That's not Christianity."
MacArthur says on the surface, the emerging church leaders seem sincere, with talk of reaching the culture:doh: for Christ. However, he says the underlying theology denies the truth of God's Word. That is why MacArthur says Christians must know the Bible.
"I love the language of First John 2: 12-14," he says. "We need to be spiritual young men, who are strong in the Word because the Word of God abides in us and we have therefore overcome the wicked one."
MacArthur says while he has received criticism from some evangelicals for writing the book, Christians are called to contend for the faith. To do that effectively, he says, Christians must know how to identify and address errors and false teachings that he says are smuggled into churches.
Allie Martin
OneNewsNow.com
June 19, 2007
Pastor and author John MacArthur says evangelical churches must be on guard against post-modernism and the emerging church. His new book says many church-going Christians are caught in a crossfire of teaching and writing that promotes alternative Christian histories and a push to eliminate absolute truth.:tsk::tsk:
Hear This Report
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/06/author_and_pastor_sounds_warni.php
In his book The Truth War; Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception, Dr. John MacArthur sounds a warning about the growing influence of the emerging church movement. The battle for truth, he says, is raging not only in society, but throughout the church.
"I think the emergent church, at its foundation, is unwilling to acknowledge propositional truth," MacArthur says. "And their spin is that the Bible is not that clear.
"We know there is absolute, objective, propositional truth. The fallout of rejecting that is pretty clear," he continues. "The apostles in the New Testament said 'We're begotten again by the Word of Truth.' If you don't have the true gospel, you can't be saved.":amen
He says the growing emergent church movement is in line with post-modernism. "Post-modernism simply is this idea that there is no absolute truth," MacArthur explains. "If that comes into the church, then that's not the church. That's not Christianity."
MacArthur says on the surface, the emerging church leaders seem sincere, with talk of reaching the culture:doh: for Christ. However, he says the underlying theology denies the truth of God's Word. That is why MacArthur says Christians must know the Bible.
"I love the language of First John 2: 12-14," he says. "We need to be spiritual young men, who are strong in the Word because the Word of God abides in us and we have therefore overcome the wicked one."
MacArthur says while he has received criticism from some evangelicals for writing the book, Christians are called to contend for the faith. To do that effectively, he says, Christians must know how to identify and address errors and false teachings that he says are smuggled into churches.