At The Cross

My horrible attempt to edify the church

1. Chris 8.27.07 / 7am

   The emergent church exists because of the vacuum that protestant evangelicalism left. Protestant evangelicalism says that Torah is done away with. So the laws contained within Torah for rightly dealing with wealth and poverty get ignored or at least truncated. The emergent church attempts in vain to deal with those issues because they water down the gospel and ignore Torah. Protestant evangelicalism says that the 7 moedim (the 6 festivals+Yom Kippurim) are “legalistic burdens” and replaced those days with things like Easter, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Christmas, etc (In all fairness I should say that the protestants continued with the replacement holy days of the Roman Catholic church.) Incidentally, the 1st Century believers kept the moedim– a careful reading of the New Testament makes this clear. The emergents follow protestant evangelicalism’s disdain for the everlasting ordinances, and try to fill the vacuum by making up their own activities/rituals– things like ‘Judas Ceremonies’. It seems to me that Protestant evangelicalism and the emergents have more in common than not. The only difference is that the emergents take the mistakes a few steps further.
2. Ken 8.27.07 / 7pm

   Seems like nothing more than a glorified “youthful” catholic gathering to me. Short on doctrine and heavy on social programs. Helping the poor is good, but it doesn’t save. The correct Gospel does.
3. alxxndria 8.27.07 / 8pm

   I totally agree Ken! It is my belief that we as Christians should be pointing to Christ and His death on the Cross. I have noticed that emergents don’t do that at all! It is selfish, and based on what THEY do and not what Christ already did. I mean for starters what is their foundation?
4. alxxndria 8.27.07 / 8pm

   Another thing-there is absolutely no excuse for the emergent church to exist. I have heard them call certain parts of the Bible a myth and they question Gods Holy Word! One leg in the world and one leg reading the Bible. How do you sit on the fence like that? Instead of looking to a denomination to fill some “vacuum” then why don’t you look to Jesus Christ and Him Crucified as the object of your Faith, read the word and ask the Lord to Reveal Scripture to you?
5. Miss Wisabus 9.7.07 / 4pm

   I don’t know why, but I wish that it didn’t. I can’t locate it right now, but I have actually heard it argued from the emergent camp that the resurrection wasn’t necessary. Makes me sick just thinking about it.

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