[Eva]

I was just reading about the Emergent Church this week while doing some research on Liberation Theology. They have a lot in common, though the emergent church is not as heavily invested in politics and is directed at the middle class with some education.

I remember during the Clinton administration, Sidney Blumenthal wrote a very long editorial describing Clinton’s political philosophy and the Third Way. It was three whole news paper pages long. Part of the article described a new church that incorporated the same tenets as this emergent church. He may have even called it that. It was described as unifying instead of dividing people. In other words people would give up all their beliefs that separated religions and join the state devised church. Muslims, Hindus, Christians, all under the same roof.

It sounds like the Rev. Wright’s church, doesn’t it?

[Bosco]

"Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as being God.
Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things? " - 2 Thess 2:1-5

"But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons" - 1 Timothy 4:1

We shouldn't be too surprised, but ready to give a defense, ready in season and out.