Phil Johnson at Pulpit Magazine has a serious of articles from the Shepherd’s conference that are very valuable regarding current discussions on this and other blogs. If you’ve come here from those blogs I highly recommend spending some time reading these:
Filed under: Apologetics, Emergent Church, Purpose Driven Madness, Seeker Sensitive
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When discussing this I’m constantly bombarded that I am promoting traditions and that those are preferrences. I don’t know how else to say that this is not about preferrences but about changing the message and doctrines that should not be changed.
Phil Johnson had a great comment on this at Christian Research Net:
http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?p=3868
What Does Remain of Evangelicalism?
from Christian Research Net
After 35+ years of relentlessly being tweaked about how unstylish we are (first by shallow seeker-sensitives and now by smarmy Emergents), evangelicals have slept through the near-total erosion of their own doctrinal distinctives at the hands of people ostensibly within their own movement. It’s amazing how many evangelicals still have not caught on to what these über-cool peddlers of “relevance” are all about. It has little to do with style (which changes every month anyway) and everything to do with changing things that should never have been regarded as fluid.
Specifically, what has actually changed most in the visible evangelical movement over the past thirty years’ time is the content of our confession. “Evangelical” belief has become so minimalistic that whatever remains of the evangelical consensus is now in effect devoid of every principle that ever made evangelicalism distinctive.
Phil Johnson
Amen Phil!