I listen to Driscoll’s sermons, read his books, watch his Youtubes, and benefit from them. The first Driscoll sermon I heard was his sermon on the Trinity and I thought, “This is the best sermon on the Trinity I have ever heard. Come to think, this is the only sermon on the Trinity I have ever [...]
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An Expose of Emerging Church Preaching, Part 5
Posted: November 23, 2009 in Emerging Church, Homiletics/PreachingTags: 9Marks, Confessions of a Reformission, Contextualization, Doug Pagitt, John McArthur, Mark Driscoll, Preaching Re-Imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith, Steven J. Lawson, The New York Times, Tim Challies, Walter Kaiser
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An Expose of Emerging Church Preaching, Part 4
Posted: November 20, 2009 in Emerging Church, Homiletics/PreachingTags: An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, Billy Sunday, Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Gary E. Gilley, John McArthur, Mark Driscoll, Richard Mouw, The Radical Reformission, Tim Challies, Tim LaHaye, Tony Jones
What unifies the doctrinally divergent EC is the passion to impact culture. This passion is driven, in part, by the philosophy of liberal postmillennialism where the church will build the Kingdom of God which is followed by the return of Christ. The premillennial view of Christ’s return is that Christ will return and establish the [...]
An Expose of Emerging Church Preaching, Part 1
Posted: November 16, 2009 in Emerging Church, Homiletics/PreachingTags: Acts 29 Church Planting Network, Brad Cecil, Brian McLaren, Darrin Patrick, David Hume, Deconstructionism, Doug Pagitt, Emerging Church, Epistemology, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gen X, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Kevin Deyoung and Ted Kluck, Leadership Network, Mark Driscoll, Mars Hill in Grand Rapids, Nooma, Postmodernim, Revisionists, Rob Bell, Scott Smith, Stanley J. Grenz, Tim Challies, Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)
In the following posts, I want to explore the current doctrinal and practical impact of the emerging church on preaching. With some humor, hyperbole, and much accuracy, the authors of Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) provide a detection list for Emergents (See Tim Challies’ review). Notice this list begins and [...]
The Emerging Church’s Rejection of the Substitutionary Death of Christ
Posted: April 1, 2009 in Emerging ChurchTags: Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, John Piper, N. T. Wright, Robert Reymond, Spencer Burke, Steve Chalke
The Scriptures teach the doctrine of the substitutionary death of Christ (1 Peter 2:21-24). Isaiah 53 also predicts the penal substitutionary death of Christ. Paul in Romans 8:3 teaches the penal atonement: “God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” The Emerging leaders, however, [...]
Emerging Church and Inclusivism
Posted: January 1, 2009 in Emerging ChurchTags: Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Hell, inclusivism, Spencer Burke
The truth of salvation which determines a person’s eternal destiny is too serious to get wrong. Yet many in the Emerging church are wrong on the doctrine of salvation. People in the Emerging church are all over the map when it comes to soteriology (the doctine of salvation), as the following two examples show: Spencer Burke [...]
