The church is Emerging!

What is the Emergent Church? This is a question that I had for quite some time. So what is it? 2 Peter 2: 1-3 says “But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber.” The Bible talks a lot about false teachers, this is something that we as the church should know about and be ready for, but unfortunately these things are going on today and we don’t even know it and if we do we and doing nothing about it.
The Emergent church by definition is "a label that has been used to refer to a particular subset of Christians who are rethinking Christianity against the backdrop of Postmodernism.” How do you rethink Christianity and what is Postmodernism? Well to understand Postmodernism one must understand Modernism first. Modernism in short is the belief that truth is absolute and knowable, and truth can be found by human reason and modern scientific study. Postmodernism is the exact opposite. Postmodernism is the belief that we cannot know truth and it only exists in relation to the individual, it is relative. Your truth is not necessarily my truth. We have all seen this in one way or another, for instance “well church works for you but I am not religious.” This is postmodern thinking and it is where our culture is today.
The troubling part is that there is a movement inside the Christian church that has adapted this train of thought and is reshaping Christianity to fit inside of this ideology. It is called the Emergent Church. The emergent church movement is seeking to deconstruct and reconstruct Christian beliefs, standards, and methods to accommodate our postmodern culture. They have adapted the beliefs of today’s postmodern culture as well relativism which says that there are no absolutes. Do you know what this means? The emergent church is saying that we cannot be absolutely sure the Bible is true. With the absence of absolutes and truth what are we left with?
The Christian faith is founded on these very principles. We believe that the Bible is absolutely God’s Word and that it is the truth. 2Timothy 3:16-17 says “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” If there is no sure thing as absolute truth then we might as well just throw the Bible out the window. Jesus said in John 14:6 "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” The word truth appears 223 times in the Bible, why would the Bible talk so much about something that didn’t exist? The fact is, this movement is a tool of the enemy. The enemy has crept in the back of the church and is spreading false doctrine and even omitting parts of the Bible like the virgin birth saying that it is more myth than actuality. The emergent church is only the next step in what Charles Spurgeon called “Christianity on the Down Grade.” It is pragmatism gone worse.
Christian brothers and sisters we need to be watchful and ready, the Bible tells us to be ready in season and out of season in 2Timothy 4:2. Do not be deceived by these false teachers who come as a wolf in sheep’s clothing Matthew 7:15. 'THESE PEOPLE DRAW NEAR TO ME WITH THEIR MOUTH, AND HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME. AND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE COMMANDMENTS OF MEN.' "Matthew 15:8-9.

Some of the characteristics of an emergent or emerging church.
• A highly creative approaches to worship and spiritual reflection. This can involve everything from the use of contemporary music and films through to liturgy or other more ancient customs. ...
• A flexible approach to theology whereby individual differences in belief and morality are accepted within reason.
• A more holistic approach to the role of the church in society. This can mean anything from greater emphasis on fellowship in the structure of the group to a higher degree of emphasis on social action, community building or Christian outreach.
• A desire to re-analyze the Bible against the context into which it was written...."


2Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Galatians 1:9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

1Timothy 4:1-2 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,

2Timothy 4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.