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Real Roots of the Emergent Church Documentary: Updated!

April 28, 2014 By ELLIOTT NESCH

Here is the 3-hour Updated Director’s Cut of The Real Roots of the Emergent Church documentary:

Because diversity characterizes the Emergent Church movement, it is difficult to paint everyone in the movement with a broad brush. Some have observed that defining the Emergent Church is like nailing jello to a wall. All participants agree on their disillusionment with the institutional church, but do not all agree on where the church is destined to go from here. They share a common concern with many evangelicals over the state of the modern church, especially the mega-church phenomenon and “seeker-friendly” churches. For this reason, many evangelicals who observe the Emerging Church are fascinated by it, drawn to its creative approaches to worship, genuineness of many of the leaders and desire to reach Gen Xers. However, these evangelicals fail to look beyond it to understand its underlying theology, or lack thereof. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Bill Hybels, Bob Buford, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Prayer, Emergent Church, Eschatology, Feminism, Gay Agenda, Gospel, Hell, Homosexuality, Islam, Jay Bakker, Judgment, Kingdom of God, Mark Driscoll, Meditation, Mysticism, New Age, Peter Drucker, Postmodernity, Prayer, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Salvation, Sin, Tony Campolo, U2/Bono, Universalism, Willow Creek, Women

Rob Bell to Join Oprah

March 29, 2014 By ELLIOTT NESCH

Universalist and homosexual-affirming Emergent teacher Rob Bell is now joining with Oprah Winfrey. The Christian Post reports:

Oprah Winfrey will be touring the U.S. this fall to help “lead people to an empathy space… a gratitude space” in an effort to find their calling and fulfill their greatest potential. Helping Winfrey in the tour hitting cities on both coasts will be influential and controversial Christian author Rob Bell, and other “handpicked thought leaders and pop culture icons.” (source)

Last year, Rob Bell appeared on Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday” program to discuss his book What We Talk About When We Talk About God. It is evident that Bell’s teachings more closely resemble New Age than Christianity when Oprah wrote of Bell’s ideas the following:

The ideas Rob sets forth in his books, Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, opened my heart and my mind. People like him are the reason I set out to build OWN in the first place: to be able to gather a global community of like-minded seekers. (source)

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Filed Under: Brian McLaren, Emergent Church, New Age, Rob Bell

Zeitgeist: “Largest Grassroots Movement”

February 4, 2014 By ELLIOTT NESCH

According to a recent report: “Recognized as the largest grassroots social movement in the world with chapters in over 60 Countries,” (source) the Zeitgeist movement is gaining momentum. Zeitgeist: The Movie was a 2007 documentary-style film by Peter Joseph. It presents a number of conspiracy theory-based ideas, such as the Christ myth theory, conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and postulates that bankers manipulate the media and international monetary system. The film has been translated in multiple languages and the Zeitgeist movement has international chapters in over 50 nations.

Below is our film Zeitgeist Refuted Final Cut in which we debunk the claims made by Zeitgeist concerning Christianity. Also below is Zeitgeist, History Rewritten by Chris White in which he talks about the history of the theories presented in Zeitgeist part one and debunks a lot of the new material that has come out after the film’s release.