Do you wonder where this New Spirituality came from?
Where is it going?
And what does it doing in our churches?! Even our Anabaptist ones . . .
What does Catholicism have to do with it?
Plus, how can we reach people in the midst of this deception? How can we stay faithful to the true gospel of Jesus Christ?
Today we are going to share with you a video series given by Roger Oakland, who has been researching this movement – especially how it relates to Roman Catholicism – for close to two decades or more. He is the author of “Faith Undone – the emerging church: a new reformation or an end-time deception”.
If you are someone who wants to know more than just the surface issues, then this video series is for you. It will take about four hours to watch it all, but will be worth your time.
In his book, as well as these talks, Roger Oakland goes into detail to explain how this wave that is sweeping the church is, in reality, tearing it down from the inside out. It is taking the faith of the gospel of Jesus Christ – and undoing it.
Quotes from Faith Undone
One of the first emerging church books to come on the scene was The Church on the Other Side by Brian McLaren. McLaren explains the objective of the movement:
We are “exploring off the map” – looking into mysterious territory beyond our familiar world on this side of the river, this side of the ocean, this side of the boundary between modern and postmodern worlds. We are looking into an exciting, unmapped world on the other side of all we know so far.
He is saying that this new postmodern world is much different from anything that has ever existed; emergents see themselves as spiritual Christopher Columbuses exploring “unmapped” spiritual territories. Dan Kimball, who wrote The Emerging Church, backs up this idea that the world we live in now is much different from ever before and now includes many different religions:
In a post-modern world, pluralism is the norm. Buddhism, Wicca, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or an eclectic blend – it’s all part of the soil.
Quote from Faith Undone, page 14
The fruits of the emerging church include creating a hostility towards Bible-believing Christians, no longer identifying with Christianity altogether, and restructuring missions and evangelism so that converts can remain in their own religion (just add a Christ-figure). Once the emerging church has accomplished these things, there truly will be nothing left of the Christian faith.
Quote from Faith Undone, page 167
Faith Undone – Part 1
52 minutes
The Undoing of Our Faith – Part 2
50 minutes
The Road to Babylon – Part 3
56 minutes
Proclaiming the Gospel in a Fallen World – Part 4
55 minutes
We believe in the inerrancy and sufficiency of the Scriptures. Jesus said, “Thy Word is truth.” And so we not only believe it, we also base our worldview upon it.