Bob Buford’s tributes to Peter Drucker
Peter Drucker was the “mentor” of Bob Buford of Leadership Network. Leadership Network has played a key role in building and training a generation of pastoral “leaders” immersed in the business philosophies of Drucker. Like leaven, the thoughts and ideas of Drucker have permeated throughout the evangelical world. Buford’s role has been to add sugar […]
Peter Drucker’s Influence
Peter Drucker, the management guru who had a profound effect on modern evangelicalism, passed away on Friday, November 11th. Shortly before his passing, Bob Buford of Leadership Network and HalfTime fame, wrote a special ActiveEnergy.net “prayer about aging” which included a tribute to Drucker: ” And thank You for Peter Drucker’s life, which he invested […]
Emergent “Post-colonial” Disingenuousness
After Brian McLaren of the “Emergent” brand of neo-evangelicalism was named one of the top 25 most influential Evangelicals in America today by TIME magazine (Feb. 7, 2005), Homiletics Online published an interview with him entitled “A Generous, not Suspicious, Orthodoxy” [http://www.tinyurl.com/c4n99]. In this interview McLaren discusses a new term that he has invented: post-colonial. […]
Having an Emergent Beer
In an article entitled “Cool Kids Church” by Eric Landry posted at http://tinyurl.com/a975a there is a quasi-critique of McLaren’s Emergent Church. The critique itself is illustrative of the neo-evangelical gospel of accommodation to culture. The Modern Reformation magazine folks (in post-modern fashion) suggest that everyone go out for a beer. “Most of us here at […]
Marketing Emergent
There is currently a rapid explosion of alliances between ministries, missions, and corporate ventures. Big business has entered the Church with partnerships for “advancing the Kindgom” and with promises of winning new souls along with profits. These marketplace “ministries” are popping up all over, particularly in Rick Warren’s activities on the continent of Africa [see […]
How Leadership Network created the “Emerging Church”
There are many interconnections between Bob Buford of the Leadership Network, Rick Warren of “purpose-driven” fame, and Brian McLaren of the “Emerging Church.” On the website http://www.anewkindofchristian.com/archives/000226.html, “The website for A New Kind of Christian, Brian McLaren answers the question, “How did Emergent start?” “1. Emergent grew out of the Young Leader Networks, which was […]
Emergent Blather vs. Rejected, Slain, Raised
The Emergent Church and all of the modern manifestations of neo-evangelicaldom preach a new gospel which is not The Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is a new generation that is intentionally being lured into emerging theologies which blend mysticism into Christianity to create an entirely new “orthodoxy” of Brian McLaren and others. Dr. Francis Schaeffer’s […]
The Contrast between the Old Doctrine and the New Doctrine
Every once in awhile, Herescope will post a good devotional from the archives of Christendom that demonstrates the sharp contrast between the neo-evangelical doctrines that are prevalent in churches today and what used to be taught as solid, orthodox Christian New Testament doctrine. This classic quotation below from A. W. Tozer is priceless in its […]
C. Peter Wagner On Taking Dominion
If you still think fulfilling the Great Commission is all about spreading the Gospel to individuals in nations all over the world, you haven’t been studying the rhetoric of the neo-evangelicals lately. C. Peter Wagner, in his 11/01/05 Global Link letter Global Harvest Ministries (referred to in yesterday’s Herescope), described the new evangelization: “Since 2001, […]
C. Peter Wagner Concocts Another New Doctrine
In a letter from Global Harvest Ministries (Global Link, 11/1/05), C. Peter Wagner, chief architect of the “Second Apostolic Age” and inventor of many new doctrines spreading like leaven throughout evangelicaldom, wrote about his latest book Freedom from the Religious Spirit. In this book he invents yet another doctrine about demon possession by a “religious […]