HATH GOD SAID? - EMERGENT CHURCH THEOLOGY

The labels Emergent Church, Emerging Church, Emergence Christianity, and New Christianity all imply innovative and progressive understandings of Orthodox Christianity. Like nailing jello to a wall, many have attempted to understand and define the Emergent movement only to be frustrated and confused.

At the heart of the Emerging movement is the worldview of postmodernism which teaches that truth is relative and subjective. This book by Elliott Nesch demonstrates how postmodernism is incompatible with a biblical worldview of absolute truth and the authority of the Scriptures on various topics including feminism, homosexuality, hell, mysticism, eschatology, Jesus Christ and the Gospel of the Kingdom of God and more.

In Hath God Said? - Emergent Church Theology, the teachings of the Emergent movement are exposed in light of Scripture. Also by comparing early Church writings with Emergent writings, it becomes evident that the Emerging Church is not preaching the faith once delivered to the saints. This book is currently available as a free PDF, or available for purchase as paperback or e-book.

The Spiritual Battle for God’s Word

Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Satan, on the other hand, came “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10). Satan “is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). Today, Satan is repeating the lie told from day one in the Garden of Eden: “Yea, hath God said?” (Genesis 3:1). Before this, there were no questions or dilemmas. “Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:4), the serpent told the woman, “then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). The attack and lie of the Serpent comes against God’s Word. The Serpent suggests that people can disobey the Word of God without consequence, that people’s eyes can be opened with some higher mystical experience and that people can be as gods. In other words, the Serpent would have us do what is right in our own eyes though it be contrary to God’s commandments. Satan seeks to give the creature the right to sit in judgment against the Creator and His word.

“He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it” (John 8:44). The weapon of choice in Satan’s murdering and stealing and destroying is a lie. It is not a dagger, not a sword, neither guns nor bombs but a lie that Satan has designed for inflicting spiritual and eternal damage in the lives of people. “The devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Today, many people are being devoured, swallowed up, murdered spiritually, and destroyed for eternity by the lies of Satan, little do they know that they are being told and preached by professing Christian leaders. They speak lies.

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HYPER-GRACE THE GREAT DECEPTION OF THE 21ST CENTURY by MICHAEL BROWN

Speaker Dr Michael Brown visits The Connection in Poway and challenges us. Is there really a great grace reformation sweeping the Church today, or is it more of a hyper-grace deception? Find out why some believers today are running from the words of Jesus, mistaking the beauty of holiness for the bondage of legalism, even accusing their brothers and sisters of being destructive Pharisees. In this seminar you will learn what the Scriptures really say about God’s glorious grace and learn how this wonderful biblical doctrine has been dangerously distorted in our day.

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In “Confronting the Error of Hyper-Grace,” Michael Brown writes:

The biblical message of grace is wonderful, glorious and life-transforming. We can’t live without it for one second of our lives. But there is a message being preached today in the name of a new grace reformation, mixing powerful truth with dangerous error. I call it hyper-grace.

One of the foundational doctrines of the hyper-grace message is that God does not see the sins of his children, since we have already been made righteous by the blood of Jesus and since all of our sins, past, present and future, have already been forgiven.

That means that the Holy Spirit never convicts believers of sin, that believers never need to confess their sins to God, and that believers never need to repent of their sins, since God sees them as perfect in his sight.

It is easy to see how such teaching can be dangerous, especially to a believer being tempted to compromise.

One hyper-grace teacher wrote this: “When God looks at me, He doesn’t see me through the blood of Christ, He sees me—cleansed! Likewise, He sees us as holy and righteous. He sees us, and He loves what He sees!”

Really? Always? 24-7? God always loves what he sees when he looks at his people?

Yes, he loves us, but does he always love what he sees?

Did Jesus love what he saw when he rebuked five out of seven congregations in Asia Minor in Revelation 2-3? Did Paul, writing on behalf of the Lord, love what he saw when he warned the Galatians that they had fallen from grace and become trapped in legalism? Did James, also writing as a servant of the Lord, love what he saw when he rebuked his readers for being “friends of the world” and “adulterers and adulteresses”?

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