{"id":279,"date":"2008-04-23T06:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:38:46","slug":"isms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/isms\/","title":{"rendered":"Isms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading recently\u00a0from all sides of the\u00a0current &#8220;Emerging Church Movement&#8221; debate. It seems that those who oppose the Emerging\/Emergent Church Movement have one primary concern\/complaint. It is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0emerging church is headed toward\u00a0syncretism.\u00a0As they\u00a0embrace\/engage the post-modern, post-Christendom, emerging generations, all in an effort to contextualize the Gospel for the culture,\u00a0they actually lose the Gospel itself, and become indistinguishable from the culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find this critique highly amusing and terribly sad all the same time. Why? Christianity, as it is most often practiced today in the west, is\u00a0a highly syncretistic brand of Christianity. So much so, that the average Christian in the average church is nearly identical in values and behavior from the average non-Christian. We are all given over to materialism, consumerism, greed, and selfish meism. Talk about syncretism!<\/p>\n<p>The warning to emerging churches is a good warning, but it&#8217;s coming from a segment of Christianity that needs to remove\u00a0a\u00a0plank from it&#8217;s own eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading recently\u00a0from all sides of the\u00a0current &#8220;Emerging Church Movement&#8221; debate. It seems that those who oppose the Emerging\/Emergent Church Movement have one primary concern\/complaint. 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