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The A-Team Blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Mark Wittmer contends that many of the “new” ideas proposed by Brian McLaren were addressed 85 years ago by J. Gresham Machen in his classic work Christianity and Liberalism (1923, Eerdmans). His paper contrasted the teaching of McLaren and Machen in six important areas. Living like Jesus is more important than believing in him. McLaren suggests that what people believe...
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An accidental blog (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Michael Wittmer has posted his ETS paper on Brian McLaren here . He sees McLaren as saying similar things as the liberals of the 1920s. Wittmer's critique is not a knee-jerk response, it is well argued and considerate. Wittmer's blog, Don't stop believing , is well worth adding to google reader.
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Christian Research Net (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Wanna know what Rob Bell, the Elvis of the Emergent cult of postliberalism is teaching your youth e.g. Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings? Well, for those not content to continue their impressions of Rip Van Winkle; and who instead, actually wish to wake up to what’s going on—right now—within mainstream evangelicalism this piece from Apprising Ministries will [...]
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the GATHERING and elsewhere (Free subscription) | yesterday
... fullest sense is more than simply the individual's head knowledge of some facts. I think it was Brian McLaren who spoke at Greenbelt about embodied knowledge as the description of how the Body of Christ together holds something that it knows corporately which is more than the sum of all the bits of knowledge held around by its members. There is also the knowledge that dictates how...
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ysmarko (Free subscription) | yesterday
... those inspiring words of Jesus. A New Kind of Driven . Who thought we would see the day when Brian McLaren and Rick Warren would collaborate on a book like this? This delightful fable involves the discussion between a budding mega-church pastor and his media savvy yoda/mentor. Battle Cry 3.0 . Mark Oestreicher and Ron Luce find common ground on this new approach to raising up an army...
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Christian Research Net (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE ROB BELL SAYS PUBLICLY PRACTICING HOMOSEXUALITY IS OK FOR CHRISTIANS BRIAN MCLAREN, THE EMERGING CHURCH, AND HOMOSEXUALITY: WHAT’S SO HARD ABOUT THAT? TONY JONES AND THE EMERGENT CHURCH: “CHRISTIAN” GAY IS A-OK EMERGENT CHURCH OPENLY ACCEPTS PRACTICING HOMOSEXUAL “CHRISTIANS” PRACTICING HOMOSEXUAL BISHOP GENE ROBINSON: “THIS IS WHERE GOD IS LEADING THE WHOLE...
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A Church for Starving Artists (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
We are trying the Delta Roasted Turkey from Southern Living this year. I'm placing my trust in the "Million Dollar Gravy." I remember hearing Brian McLaren speak about the situation in Darfur several summers ago on the National Mall about the whole "God Bless America" sentiment. His basic point was that we (in America) are more than blessed especially compared to the rest of the world...
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The A-Team Blog (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
Some of the folks who are part of the Emergent "movement" recently published their own version of the Bible. I haven't seen it personally, but this review points out some serious problems with it: Emergent church leaders such a Brian McLaren and Chris Seay in conjunction with a pack of poets, songwriters and storytellers have just released a new “translation” of the Bible that they claim...
