In line with the Slice piece concerning the AoG opening leadership positions to momen, ELCA “pastor” Nadia Bolz-Weber is a featured speaker at the upcoming emergent church Christianity 21 conference, which is being put on by Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt.

Here’s a post using the example of Bolz-Weber to demonstrate 1) how postmoderns at their whim simply ignore history and the actual meanings of words, and 2) why it is according to the Bible women cannot be ordained as pastors.

 In this piece you’ll see the exchange Jay Bakker had with apologist Chris Rosebrough of Pirate Christian Radio via Twitter today. Rosebrough offered to meet Bakker in a public debate on homosexuality but, as you’ll also see, Bakker refused content to continue playing the martyr to his sympathizers.

Apprising Minstries continues a look at how the doctrine of the nature of God is changing in the emerging church, which offers an explanation as to why the penal substitutionary atonement is unnecessary to their new Emergence Christianity.

This in-depth article examines some teaching by Emergent Church theologian Leonard Sweet showing a shift in Emerging Church theology concerning the nature of God Himself. You’ll see this new emergence is moving closer to the New Age movement than to anything resembling orthodox Christianity.

Apologist Chris Rosebrough does a serious and thorough deconstruction of the gospel-less gospel of Rob Bell in his in-depth Fighting for the Faith program where he begins:

Not only are there doctrinal errors in here; there are historical errors in here, and he’s engaging in something here called deconstructionism. This is a very, very dangerous “gospel” that he’s preaching.

And I am not going to back off from my assessment; I’ll tell you ahead of time, this is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is not the Gospel that the Apostles preached. This is something completely different…

You listen to this important program in its entirety here.

*Update* On his “Fighting for the Faith” broadcast today at 6 pm Eastern time Chris Rosebrough of Pirate Christian Radio will be deconstructing the message heard in the video below .

This post contains a video where you can see Rob Bell share his gospel-less view of “Good News According to Rob Bell”.

This post talks further about how the embrace of contemplative spirituality and the Emerging Church within mainstream evangelicalism is opening up the exact same homosexual “debates” now going on within mainline groups like the ELCA and PCUSA.

In this post, complete with audio, Chris Rosebrough points out that:

Rob Bell and the other pastors at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan have some serious explaining to do and need to repent, big time, for the rank heresy that’s been spewing from their pulpit lately.

Sadly, because the Bible is becoming irrelevant to more and more within the visible church there’s a very dark and threatening same-sex storm right now approaching hurricane force.

Currently only slightly off the coast of the mainstream evangelical community, articles like this one concerning evangelical pastor Jay Bakker’s upcoming speaking engagement promoting same sex marriage are attempting to prepare you for what’s going to be happening in your church sooner than you may think.

An unusual post, and look, at the recently concluded [False] Poets Prophets Preachers conference sponsored by Zondervan and hosted by Rob Bell.

Apprising Ministries has more detail and the links to a must read series on this pseudo-Christian movement rooted in a neo-Gnosticism from our friends at the online apologetics and discernment ministry Herescope.

Sadly, it still comes as shock to many; but nevertheless the facts are still here for those who have eyes that see.

“I was also struck with the absence of judgement in this Story. He seemed to allude that recreation, renewal, and restoration was for “all things”…was universal. Part of the Story that Jesus certainly tells has an element of judgement and separation of those who believe/act from those who do not believe/act. It is very unclear 1) if there is judgement in the Story we pastors are supposed to be communicating and 2) if we are supposed to talk about the reality of judgement in the Story we tell.”

–Jeremy Bouma, live blogging ‘emerging-missional follower of Jesus’ at Rob Bell’s, Poets, Prophets, Preachers Conference. He was blogging about Rob Bell’s address.

Yes, Jeremy, some of us have also been struck with the absence of cross and judgment in the “Story” Rob Bell thinks we should be telling. Anyone paying attention will notice Rob’s unbiblical Universalism pretty quickly.

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To paraphrase REM pop philosopher Michael Stipe; as far as what’s discussed here: It’s the end of the mainstream evangelical world as we know it…

According to one pastor live blogging from Bell’s current conference it appears that he did. More here.

Tickle scratches itching ears and tells us who the new reformers are.

In this piece you’ll see where Phyllis Tickle of the Emerging Church, fresh from teaching for the Mars Hill Bible Church of Rob Bell, will be conducting her October ear-scratching story-time.

The Emerging Church often speaks of how diverse it is and difficult to understand. Well, Pyromaniacs has an easy-to-understand chart that all of us can now follow.

More detail here.

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.