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Sounds like New Age Christianity, with stress on the first two words. Or maybe “The Church of Christ without Christ,” the rival church in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood.

Maybe we should email their page link to the White House; sounds perfect for the Obama’s new “spiritual home”, though the pictures did look “mighty white”.

The Emergent Church movement?

Now a new name has popped up and their movement has been endorsed by Rick Warren and other leaders. It is called the emerging church movement or the emergent church movement. The philosophy behind this growing movement is that purpose driven churches were designed to appeal to baby boomers but now they need churches that will appeal to the post modern younger generations. The emerging churches will be more experience orientated and will rely more on story telling on Sunday then on teaching scripture. Some in this movement have called the teaching of Christian doctrine divisive and say that everything has to be redefined in the light of modernism. After all, the post modern generation have no moral absolutes and neither will these churches. One should wonder what they base their Christianity on? I will tell you. They base their Christianity on a Jesus conjured up in the crystal ball of their own mind. They embrace mystical experiences, feelings, and goose bumps instead of biblical truths! Their beliefs are very compatible with those of Eastern religions. Jesus just happens to be their own personal Guru.

The purpose driven and emergent hijacking of Christianity By Don Koenig

This excerpt is from near the bottom of the page.