Featured Will Baptists Fall to Emerging Church Values?

Some Baptist churches will go in the direction you fear, but not all; maybe not even most.

But what I fear is not that churches will embrace heresy, but that they will simply become lukewarm. They will be properly orthodox in doctrine, but will lose any passion for outreach, missions and evangelism.

Our prayer should be that not only will the Lord protect us from error, but will also give us a passion for the lost world around us.

 

The fawning over Joel Osteen and Joyce Meyer make me sick. Sheeple sitting there THIKING they are learing God's Word.

I listen to a podcast where a Christian listens and critiques their narcissistic sermons.

We should not be surprised at any of this since we were warned 2,000 years ago that money is the root of all evil. In fact, Osteen' s so-called church USED to be called Prestonwood BAPTIST church.

 

Just as a note, the emerging/emergent conversation has been over for about five years now. The discussion has shifted among those seeking renewal while the Emergent group has solidified their position.

 

The Emerging Church no longer has any relevance or influence.

 

Does lukewarm lead to aethiestism?

 

Nothing leads to atheism, except personal rejection of Christ.

Unfortunately, lukewarm sects have lingered on, damaging the cause of Christ, for centuries.

 

Sounds more like a rehash anti sermon from 1999. The emergent church is so un-relevant that even one time emergent leaders have left the movement.

I'm more worried about nonsense like Hagee's Blood Moon infecting churches than someone with a candle who follows the church calendar.

 

I am dealing with this issue from some of my church members. I do not see any real damage coming from it but it is without doubt wrong.

 

What the ever present danger is for any Christian or church is the same that it always has been, as replacing the teachings of the Bible with the traditions and "doctrines" that are not of/from God!

 

None of us should be surprised this is happening, even in >>gasp<< Baptist churches.

2 Peter 2, NASB
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. ​

A looming heresy involved a denial of Christ (2:1) and ridiculed the promise of his return (3:3-4). Certain teachers were consumed with fleshly lusts and despised divine authority. They were rebels—sneaky, reckless, and bold in their opposition to truth. They lived more on the animal level than as godly human beings (2:1, 10-12). These peddlers of error delighted in seducing and taking captive ignorant souls, all the while promising them freedom to live independently of the will of God (2:14, 18-19). They were church outlaws.[

A key issue among religious scholars is whether these teachers were church members who were genuine in their conversion initially, or whether they were mere pretenders who never embraced the gospel. Baptist scholar A. T. Robertson, who endorsed the concept of eternal security and preservation of the saints, contended that they are simply “professing Christians,” that is, people who base their faith on lifelong church attendance, family ties to the church, emotional reaction without intellectual or spiritual assent to the Gospel, or -- in extreme cases -- actually had no ties, but were from the father of lies.

Whatever the reason for their error and no matter from where they came, God told Peter this would happen, and he told us this would happen.

 

Of course but we can all disagree on things as well without it being a theological crisis every single time.

 

I think we can all agree discernment in the church today is lacking.

 

Discipleship is the real issue or the lack of it.

 

Agreed, poor or lack of discipleship will led to poor discernment. For me, I truly don't see the hunger for God's word in the church today like I remember back in the day. Call me crazy but all this Seeker Sensitive junk has led to shallow converts that may not even be converts but just pretenders that don't hunger for His word and don't hunger for righteousness, they are happy that they have added Jesus to their life but don't ask them about sanctification.

 

Yes, as God help us when we divide over issues that Jesus sees as being debatable in house things, and yet start to take on and profess the World's cultural stances and values!

 

Ues, as we have many raised up and taught that best theology is whatever charismatic teacher/pastor has 'from the Lord!"

 

One doesn't have anything to do with the other.