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Dr. Jimmy Cobb provides a brief history of the emergent church and explains the basis for its structure.
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Dr. Jimmy Cobb is Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary in Cochrane, AB.
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Kelly Powers said
Hello Dr. Jimmy Cobb. I have not chatted with you before, and I don't want in any way to come across the wrong way to you with my first time sharing something in response to you. I am familiar with the CNBC and the SBC denomination and theology. I have been for sometime now researching the Emergent Church movement and seeing some very dangerous beliefs arise within this group. I am in agreement that we as a church should always be emerging in the sense with the culture around us and being real, not just a denomination or a group that gathers at some building. However, with researching people like Phyllis Tickle who seems to believe this is a new type of reformation who believes God is both Father and Mother, with people like Brian Mclaren/Rob Bell/Doug Pagitt who deny eternal judgment for non believers and have a very universalist type of theology on salvation, with people like Tony Jones who does not believe in original sin or an eternal judgment either or wakes up every day (according to him) thinking do I believe in a crock or is this Jesus thing real? Many of the leaders of the Emergent camp have no issues with women as pastors or elders, they do see it being wrong as living a lifestyle of homosexuality and calling yourself a Christian, and some even believe that the view of the second coming of Jesus coming to judge the world in His righteousness and wrath is ignorant/immoral/ and dangerous.
These are things I have read from their books I have myself or read/listen to them online. Again, I realize your main point was they are pushing for change, and yes we do need change, but they are leading thousands in heretical theology contrary to the truth of the gospel message. I pray you get a chance to look more into this and for the CNBC.
Feel very open to reply to me as I would like to discuss this more.
Kelly Powers
Comment left on August 14, 2009 at 02:36PM
Kelly Powers said
Correction on a typo: "they do see it being wrong as living a lifestyle of homosexuality and calling yourself a Christian"
They actually "don't" see it being wrong as living a lifestyle of homosexuality and calling yourself a Christian. I typed that wrong and needed to correct what i typed.
Kelly Powers
Comment left on August 14, 2009 at 02:41PM