August 23, 2008 by Stacy McDonald
Apollos versus Postmodern Christianity
While attending a wedding in Omaha last weekend, we stayed with Pastor Phil Kayser and his family. While there, our family had the opportunity to worship at the church where he serves, Dominion Covenant PCA. Pastor Kayser preached an important message, reflecting on how we should vigorously contend for the faith. As a specific application, Pastor Kayser noted some of the dangers of the emergent church movement. I would encourage EVERYONE to listen to this powerful sermon!
This is a vital message for the church of Jesus Christ:
Apollos versus Postmodern Christianity
And read here what Brian McLaren has been saying.
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Hi Stacy. Instead of listening to the sermon, I read it. I take things in better that way! It was a great sermon and message. I ended up looking up the man from the emergent church movement that the pastor kept quoting and I was blown away by what I found on him and what he endorses. That being said, a word of caution. The term “emergent church movement” is actually more broad than people may think. What the pastor was talking about, and what Mclaren stands for, is not the only movement under the banner of “emergent church”. There are actually christians who use that term about what they are doing for Christ who are not in agreement at all with the ones in the sermon. The “emergent church” christians that I know agree 100% in the infallibility of the Bible, they stand on the gospel truth that “no one comes to the Father but through Christ.” They evangelize and serve using love and doctrine. They call themselves the emergent church because they are seeking to bring a new, emerging generation to Christ. This emergent church and the one spoken of in the sermon are two different things. The one in the sermon we need to beware. I don’t want the other to be judged when their work is based in Truth.
I echo with what Amy has written. It would be too easy to throw every church using new means and methods to convey the gospel out with the term emergent. I have read about and briefly studied the emergent church movement and there seems to be a wide span of definitions and descriptiions.
Good heavens, this is indeed disturbing. Even before I saw the awful insult to Jesus and His sacrifice, I was alarmed at his praise of Mohammed’s teachings. There may indeed be some nuggets of wisdom in the Muslim faith, but I have yet to find them. I used to think their religion was really peaceful and that only the recent developments in the faith brought on female abuse and Jewish killings; I was deceived. Their bible says to beat disobedient wives and to kill infidels. Mohammed himself married several wives, one of whom was twelve at the time of her marriage; he was a child rapist at best, while his modern followers are mutilators at worst. How could anyone, much less a Christian, approve this man’s work?
For some background info and research on the Emergent Church, feel free to visit: http://apprising.org/category/emergent-church/
or:
http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?cat=36
A powerful message. Thank you for sharing. More importantly, thank you for sharing the link to the church and many other sermons. My daughter has been in correspondece with a young man with whom Baptism is a place of disagrement (he is Baptist and we are Presbyterian). While she is strongly grounded in her theology, the reinforcment of this pastor’s sermons on Baptism were very helpful to her in many ways.
As always I found the trip to your site to be uplifting in our family’s walk with the Lord. Even when I don’t agree with everything, there is something here of the Holy Spirit creating thought and renewal.
Thanks for all you do!