As you’ll see here, not surpringly, last week the very popular emerging church website The Ooze came out in favor of gay marriage. More evidence that there’s a same sex storm just slightly off the coast of the mainstream evangelical community, which is right now approaching hurricane force.

An important in-depth article examining the fruit produced by the contemplative spirituality teachings of this Quaker mystic and how the Emerging Church is now helping spread his influence throughout mainstream evangelicalism.

One man’s perspective in this post on how Driscoll’s sermon on Pilgrim Radio affected his family, and is indeed, food for further meditation.

More detail here.

This article is a summary of critical concerns now that mainstream evangelicalism has all but surrendered Sola Scriptura in favor of contemplative spirituality, which is its antithesis.

A few thoughts as to how this relates to one particular emerging church.

Crossroad.to brings us this bang on piece culled from the Editors at Lighhouse Trails Research:

It was Shakespeare who said a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. In the case of the “new spirituality” that has pervaded so much of Christianity, emergent church by any other name is just as harmful. While some are saying they are not “emergent” but are emerging, the overall beliefs (and mission) of each–emergent and emerging–are the same. A perfect example of this can be found in…

There’s really no new forms of apostasy under the sin; just new names and familiar faces.

A brief quote from this Church Reformer concerning corrupt contemplative spirituality and the emerging church idea of finding God in “the Other” religions.

A couple of points of clarification, and a bit of closure, in this missive.

A short post discussing love as it concerns pastor Jay Bakker, who has become an influential voice in Emerging Church.

A post which looks at this important question concerning Jay Bakker, pastor of Revolution.

Well, that’s what the leaders of the Church of England hope, anyway. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams believes that innovative forms of worship, like  praying for the CEOs of billion dollar corporations, meditating at prayer stations representing things like “gender equality,” and music by U2 will bring young people into the mausoleums which are  English churches. It wont’ work. Man’s methods never do.

I will never forget standing in a 500 year old church on a Sunday in England and watching the priest performing his elaborate ceremonies for the choir. The ancient church was completely empty. On the bulletin board, there was a desperate plea for funds to fix the  bell tower. The crumbling church buildings and the empty pews are symbolic of the moral decay and spiritual emptiness that has fallen on England. Man-made initiatives will never bring true revival to England’s churches, only the true gospel will. “Fresh Expressions” may fill the pews, but God long ago wrote Ichabod above the doors of Canterbury Cathedral.

Apprising Ministries with an apologetic concerning the most important Subject there is and how critical doctrinal distinctives are now being clouded and then erased by Emerging Church teachers.

Another peek at the not so distant future of Christianity as it is emerging.

*Update* See also Nadia Bolz-Weber: Sermon On Judas And Grace Gone Wild to see just how far off the rails professed ministers of the Gospel are headed.

Apprising Ministries shows you in this post how some of these pieces of the Emerging Church puzzle are fitting together.

A look at another one of the personalities to be featured at this upcoming Emerging Church conference concerning the future of the Christian faith.

Another peek at some of the personalities and the agenda behind this upcoming Emerging Church conference concerning the future of the Christian faith.

Alongside the post Peter Rollins And Ikon Singing “Seeds Of Doubt” comes this recollection from our friend Cecil Andrews of Take Heed Ministries, who’s literally been a guest of Ikon’s and has, in person, also heard Peter Rollins speak.

In this informative article concerning Ikon and their god with a man-shaped hole in his heart Andrews tells us:

Peter Rollins spoke for 40 minutes and early on he identified what was a motivating factor behind IKON’s search for a form of Christian spiritual reality – it was their observation of a failure by professing ‘Christians’ within professing Christendom to demonstrate a life-style clearly different from the ‘non-believing’ world round about them.

As a result of this I believe that Peter Rollins has an understandable  misconception of what Biblical Christianity is really all about and in consequence he tends to present a caricature of genuine Biblical Christianity…

If you weren’t familiar with this rising star within the Emerging Church you should make the time to become familiar. This friend of Rob Bell’s is sure to showing up in mainstream evangelical youth groups, if he hasn’t already.