How Did the Emergent Movement Begin?

How Did the Emerging Movement Begin?


Sandra D How Did The Emerging Come About? Jan 3, '09 4:40 PM

for everyone



I am still using the book by Roger Oakland called Faith Undone.



This book examines not just the obvious leaders of this movement, but also examines the much more encompassing emerging spirituality. Oakland intends to expose a belief system, rather than just a group of particular leaders. To write about all the leaders would take volumes upon number. But showing you what lies beneath the surface-- revealing the energy of force that moves these leaders -- will be more beneficial and long lasting.



Oakland's intention is not to determine the motives of these individuals, but rather to bring to light the truth about the spirituality behind the teachings. This emerging spirituality has far-reaching effects. If left unchallenged, it could soon pervade a warp much of what we know as Christianity.



In the near future, Christians of every denomination will have to decide whether to support or reject the spirituality behind the emerging church. If the emerging church continues unfolding at its present pace, mainstream evangelical Christianity will be restructured so that the biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ will be considered too narrow and too restrictive.



This group has a saying for those who refuse to deny their Faith of the Bible and adapt to their post-modern ways. They call them "resisters" and have a plan to get them out of the way. Some of these leaders say that since all the young people will go their way, the old Christians will just die out and be no more. How does this agree with the Bible? It doesn't.



Oakland says, "If I believed for one minute that this movement was just another passing whim or the discontent rumblings that so often accompany young people's search for answers to life, I (he) would never have written this book. And if I did not believe that what we are witnessing with this emerging spirituality lines up with biblical end-time prophecy, you would not be reading these pages. But, sad to say, the emerging church is far more than a fleeting fad and much more than the complaints of a group of young leaders. It is indeed a 'new way of being Christians' and in every conveivable manner, it is striving to bring about a 'new reformation'. Without a doubt, it will have an 'impact on all churches' in the Western world and far beyond. For behind this new kind of church is a well designed strategy and maneuver by the prince of this world, the enemy of our souls, to literally take apart the faith of millions -- it will be nothing less than faith undone."



Next, I will write more about the birth of the emerging church. Remember that the first messages are at the bottom or in the archives. The first message you see is the last one I wrote. Sandra