The Emergent Church Runs Away from the Bible!

The Emerging Church Movement often ends up with opinions which differs very much from traditional mainstream Christianity. How come that EC (Emerging Church) has such different views on sin, forgiveness, salvation and many other fundemental Christian beliefs.

I believe that EC has the best of intentions to make the gospel acceptable for our generation. But the problem with re-interpreting the gospel so it will be easier to accept it, is that you can end up preaching a different gospel. The risk is that we are preaching what we think people want to hear rather than what God wants to say. The risk is that we are preaching a different gospel:
 "I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let that person be under God's curse!  (Gal 1:6-8).

I believe that the main reason why EC ends up with different interpretations is that they do not see the Bible as a divine guideline for life. If you have no anchor then the wind will bring you any place. They often refer to a new freedom in EC. And, of course, when you are no longer limited by what the Bible says, then you are free to think whatever you want and go wherever you want.


Ph.D Don Boys has written a series of articles about EC. In one of the articles,
"The Emergent Church Runs Away from the Bible!", he quotes one of the leading prophets in EC, Brian McLaren:
"The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can be as valid as any other can. Experience, dialogue, feelings, and conversations are equated with Scripture while certitude, authority, and doctrine are to be eschewed! No doctrines are to be absolute and truth or doctrine must be considered only with personal experiences, traditions, historical perspectives, etc. The Bible is not an answer book. (Brian, McLaren, A New Kind of Christianity, p. 52.)"

That is a totally different approach to the Bible than the wiew of the World Wide Evangelical Church expressed in the Lausanne Covenant:
"We affirm the divine inspiration, truthfulness and authority of both Old and New Testament Scriptures in their entirety as the only written word of God, without error in all that it affirms, and the only infallible rule of faith and practice. We also affirm the power of God's word to accomplish his purpose of salvation." 

So it all sums up to our view on the Bible. Is it God´s word to us or is it an unreliable human product?  

Or as Dr Boys starts his article:
"Emergent Church leaders ask the same question Satan asked in the Garden, “Hath God said?” They have no confidence in the Word so they have no compass, chart, or anchor."