I have seen this Emergent Church happening within my own church as the worship leader loves Brian Mclaren and the Emeregent movemant. It is frightening!
To those who are Evangelical Christians(not Catholic) you should be concerned about this movemant. Do some research on the internet about it and you will find some disturbing issues.
If you notice your own church starting to light candles everywhere, have a room designed for prayer with pictures to enhance your visual sense, reading the Apostle's Creed and making it your churches statement of faith when it never was before, start being accepting of other worship fellowships, not looking to the Bible as much anymore or theology anymore, but rather your own mind. This is a very new agy movemant and I want nothing to do with it. Be on your gaurd!
It could indeed be a bad thing *if* these things were introduced under pretext of the New Age: i.e. "here, take these candles and this Christological heresy with it." Is that what is going here, though? It's not clear to me from the story, and perhaps you or someone else has a better understanding of the people behind the movement. Incidental things like candles, icons are/have been a part of Christianity since the beginning though; so I'm hoping that they are being introduced to these churches in that context, and not as a vehicle for heterodoxy.