Quantum Eschatology
Part 7: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970* “…[I]f you look at the metaphysical situation, there is a continental drift… the metaphysical center of the earth today… [is] India.“North America… is moving towards the Far East. You see that not only in the California phenomenon, but in the new religious movements in America — enchantment […]
Envisioning Emergence
Part 6: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970* “…[T]he vision that God reveals is likely to evolve and become clearer over time…. We are all called to be open to God’s leadership, to respond even when the pathway to the destination is unclear, and to be prepared for God to reveal more of his plans […]
Emerging Towards Convergence
Part 5: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970* “After emergence comes emersion.” —Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (Harper, 1965), p. 309. By Sarah H. Leslie The Emergent/Emerging Church movement is heading towards a crash collision with the New Age movement. In fact, it may already be happening before our very eyes. The Discernment […]
Theater Church
Spectacles for Spectators By Pastor Larry DeBruyn And do not become idolaters as were some of them.As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink,and rose up to play.”(1 Corinthians 10:7, NKJV) “Believers, Beware!” EXODUS-THIRTY-TWO may soon be coming to a theater near you! Don’t we remember how as Moses was receiving […]
“The New Thing”
Part 4: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 To the Lord of the Church and all of His faithful peoplewho are helping Him to create “the new thing” in our time. – Author’s Dedication, the emerging church [1] In the Foreword to Bruce Larson and Ralph Osborne’s 1970 book the emerging church (Word) the authors […]
RETRO EMERGENT
Part 3: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 Part 1: The Emerging Church – Circa 1970 Part 2: Early Experimental Emergents “A church should not change just to be different. It should change because the context of the culture about it requires its organizations to restructure themselves so church tasks can be effectively fulfilled. “If […]
EVANGELICALS: EMERGENT AND EROTIC
This fall (October, 2009), one major seminary is hosting a one-day seminar on, “Sacred Sexuality.” One purpose of the conference includes, “Casting a Vision for the Sexually Healthy Church,” and one workshop is titled, “Holy Eroticism: Marital Intimacy.” This quotation is excerpted from the newly updated article, originally entitled “The God of Sex versus Sex […]
Dumbed-Down Doctrinal Dyslexia
Part 4: RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTSThe Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious Spirituality By Pastor Larry DeBruyn A Tall Tale of Two Brains There has arisen a two-brained theory/myth that persons dominated by their left brain are characterized by “logical thinking, analysis, and accuracy,” while those in touch with their right brain are into “aesthetics, feeling, and […]
Ecstasy, Lusts & Lies
Part 3: RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTSThe Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious Spirituality By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Ecstasy and Idolatry On Mars Hill, the Apostle Paul addressed the Athenian philosophers: “Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by […]
Excitements & Idolatry
Part 2: RELIGIOUS EXCITEMENTSThe Sights, Sounds, and Spectacles of Spurious Spirituality By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Exodus and Excitements The problem being raised is not new (Read Exodus 32:1-35.). Upon their exodus from Egypt, the children of Israel were not content in worshipping a God they could not see or feel, a God who was apparently […]