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From Slice of Laodicea, another blog about apostasy:
Spurgeon Gem for Today
Heresies in the Christian church come never from the city missionary, never from the faithful pastor, never from the intense evangelist; but always from gentlemen at ease who take no actual part in our holy war.
–C.H. Spurgeon
My Comment: The heretics of today who undermine the authority of Scripture drift from conference to conference to book signing to yet another conference. They fly first class or in their own jets, they have huge advances from their publishers and they live very, very comfortable lives. It isn’t difficult being a false teacher. Satan always makes sure that there is plenty of money and that there are plenty of followers to reward such men and women. But their final reward is what matters, and I tremble to think about it. How much better to soldier on here, to take the incoming missiles and the affliction and yet to do it with our Savior by our side. We have all eternity to rest.
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GJ - Are they talking about Leonard Sweet? Church and Change? The Church Growth Gurus?
Slice of Laodicea Has Some Words about the LCMS
LCMS Invites Emerging Guru Dan Kimball **Updated**
Apparently finding God in His Word is no longer enough. The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is inviting emerging church guru Dan Kimball to address a youth ministry conference. This is the same Kimball who had his book, The Emerging Church, forwarded by neo-liberal heretic Brian McLaren. Brian McLaren does not believe in a literal hell or the substitutionary atonement of Christ and believes that monogamous homosexual relationships are A-Ok. (See McLaren featured at the “gay” Open Door Community Church in Arkansas. Scroll down on the last link to see “Pastors” Randy and Gary snuggling up together.) Does the LCMS feel any longer that spiritual affiliations are important? They would not allow a conservative Baptist or Reformed pastor in the door to preach, but they are allowing Dan Kimball who asks gay-supportive, substitutionary atonement denying Brian McLaren to write a forward for his book, to tell them how to reach youth? Is the Holy Spirit so absent in church now that they are reduced to asking men like Kimball how to conduct ministry?
Kimball supports the stampede back to mysticism with labyrinths, eastern-style meditation and Lectio Divina. He leapfrogs the Reformation and tells us we need to go back to the Desert Fathers to learn how to experience God. I somewhere missed that section of the Book of Concord where it tells us that we meet God in the silence and our imaginations. Emerging church authors and leaders routinely dismiss the Reformation and its biblical Solas as irrelevant. “We are in postmodern times now. That’s outmoded modernity. Everything must change now. Re-imagine church. Redefine the Scriptures as narrative instead of Divine fiat. Who ever said Scripture Alone was true anyway?” Having researched the emerging church for years now, I can say authoritatively that they are waging the biggest assault on Scriptural authority than we’ve seen in the last 100 years.
The thought of bringing emerging church guru, Dan Kimball, into the LCMS to teach ought to be ringing alarms bells at the headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Oh, wait a minute. Those are the same people bringing Dan Kimball in. Looks like it’s time for another Reformation, this time in the Lutheran church.
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GJ - Notice how naive the writer is about the LCMS (or substitute WELS, ELS, and the micro-minis)! Missouri welcomed a feminist, pro-gay, pro-abortion preacher in the pulpit. Was anything done? She became the Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale Divinity (the best homiletics gig in America).
Watch the St. Louis seminary president swooning as Leonard Sweet talks about himself, sounding like one of those elderly hippies who over-ingested banned substances.
The video can be found here.
Sweet-hearts in WELS invited him to speak in 2005 (Church and Change).
The four-letter synods crawl into the laps of the false teachers and coo at them, so one more heretic is hardly a crushing blow to orthodoxy. Each wave of apathy from the clergy and laity prepares the way for the next worse teacher of falsehood. Synod minders like Rev. Mouse are not as keen to defend false doctrine as they are to attack personally those who warn others. Synod minders like Mouse are not pro-Church Growth Movement. They are anti-anti-Church Growth Movement, a subtle difference.
