Posted on 03/19/2013 6:18:28 AM PDT by Gamecock
While I’m not a big fan of mega-churches, or TV preachers, I’m not aware that any of: Bill Hybels, Robert Schuller, Perry Noble, Ed Young Jr, Rick Warren support gay marriage, or have unorthodox (counter-Nicene-creed) doctrines (denying hell, the virgin birth, the resurrection, etc.)—as Rob Bell and the Emergent people do.
How exactly are Bill Hybels, Robert Schuller, Perry Noble, Ed Young Jr, & Rick Warren, apostate?
This is a good one for this post.
Saints Tossed To and Fro
“In this message, Dr. Stanley talks about the importance of having a faith that is doctrinally sound and spiritually mature. When we can explain what we believe and why we believe it, we won’t be carried away by false doctrine. We’ll also be able to use our biblical knowledge and spiritual giftedness to build up the church and bring people together.”
http://www.intouch.org/broadcast/today-on-radio/content.aspx?topic=Saints_Tossed_To_and_Fro_radio
I knew this was your post before I got to the name. I award you the “BlackElk Prize for Vehemently Vivid Verbiage,” with the caveat that you simply must alliterate more.
Great tagline! God bless Rashputin and you and all of each of yours!
Thank you.
There were some good men and women who were attacked when they stood up and objected to LoveWins.
They are owed an apology.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3000081/posts?q=1&;page=96
Key items include these:
Bell is the recently-resigned founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, a megachurch in a suburb of my hometown of Grand Rapids. He's a Wheaton College and Fuller Theological Seminary graduate. He managed to plant a megachurch in the center of the Dutch Reformed world by advocating styles of worship and doctrinal beliefs at radical variation from the historic beliefs of the people among whom he pastors, while bringing a veneer of evangelicalism to the mix.
How did such radical views gain traction in a place like Grand Rapids?...
The theological collapse of the Dutch Reformed world in Grand Rapids has resulted in people fleeing the CRC and RCA in all sorts of directions...
What Rob Bell managed to create in Grand Rapids was something new. Mars Hill Bible Church combined the attractions of the externals of evangelical Christianity with the attractions of a liberal faith.
Bell was an early warning sign of a type of so-called evangelical Christianity which is growing in America, and which is not evangelical at all. It is merely a re-creation of an older type of liberalism, one which unlike the major forms of liberalism of the late 1800s and early 1900s, claimed to be “spiritual” rather than having the anti-supernatural focus of mainstream classical liberalism...
More on this mess, with Rob Bell speaking on Oprah:
Rob Bell on gay marriage: ‘We’re moments away’ from church embracing it
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