If I knew what you were talking about I might be able to respond, but carry on with whatever. You made the comment, "There is such a thing as being "unequally yoked with unbelievers," and I do believe that Master Rick has mastered it". I simply ask the question, "when did the disciples, the twelve and the seventy, become "believers"?"
Matt. 9:10-13, "And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
Do you agree with the Purpose Driven method of shaping the gospel to meet people's felt needs as Warren wrote in The Purpose Driven Church?
And if Purpose Driven is just a method, as you say, then how is Rwanda a Purpose Driven nation (as reported by Warren)?
...And that the sinners and tax collectors came and ate with Him.
...And that it was the Pharisees who charged Jesus with eating with tax collectors and sinners.
A lot of PD people use this passage to justify the church being conformed to the world's/sinner's desires...It doesn't fly.
If I'm not mistaken you said something earlier that created the impression that you are a lawyer (" I have an important argument in court tomorrow"), so I am not surprised that you are quite good at term-reframing.
If I knew what you were talking about I might be able to respond, but carry on with whatever. You made the comment, "There is such a thing as being "unequally yoked with unbelievers," and I do believe that Master Rick has mastered it". I simply ask the question, "when did the disciples, the twelve and the seventy, become "believers"?"Matt. 9:10-13, "And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."
But you're not perfect at it.
Sorry, but it won't wash. The New! Cheap! Sexy! "Gospel!" may try to create an "everything is everything" mishmash, devoid of "boring stuff", but the fact remains that there is a wide gulf between evangelical outreach, and the communion of the Body of Christ (which, at the heart of it, is what "church" IS).
Warrenites want to bring unbelievers into communion with the Body of Christ.
Christians do not want to accept this heresy.
That is the bottom line -- and that is why the Warrenites are going nuts doing everything they can to muddy the issues, create diversionary digressions, and in short, make people look anywhere but there.