Way Of The Master: Lesson 7 – The Emergent Church
The battle between the emergent church and the traditional church is not about philosophy or methodology but about truth, the absolute truth given in God’s Word. The emergent church has fallen into the worlds thought process regarding truth. Truth is at best hazy, indistinct, and uncertain – perhaps even unknowable. How many times have you heard about the “gray areas” of the Bible. Let me be very frank with you. There are no gray areas in the Word of God. He is not a wishy-washy God leaving theology open to man’s vain imagination. He is God and is absolute truth down to His core. Methodology may be different, but theology and doctrine are TRUTH!
John MacArthur say in Truth Wars, that the emergent church thinks the Christian message should be kept pliable and ambiguous seems especially attractive to young people who are in tune with culture and in love with the spirit of the age and can’t stand to have authoritative biblical truth applied with precision as a corrective to the worldly lifestyles, unholy minds, and ungodly behavior. The poison of this perspective is being increasingly injected into the evangelical church body. This is not the Christianity of Christ and the Bible. Christ used the law to allow the Spirit to convict the person and did not try to be attractive but convictive. Lets follow the Master and not man’s devises.
We must realize the truth of the scriptures and that time is against us. We do not have time to become attractive to this world. This world is selfish, evil, and unholy. Why would the truth od God’s Word be attractive to them? It goes against who they are a a person. So let’s reach out with compassion but with the unadulterated truth.
We have been given a clear message for the purpose of confronting this world’s belief system. We have also been given the Holy Spirit who does the convicting and the prodding. We must be obedient. Faithfulness demands it and honor of God requires it. We cannot sit by and do nothing while worldly, revisionist, and skeptical attitudes about truth are infiltrating the church.