It appears per this Mark Driscoll article that Ravi Zacharias is becoming more deeply concerned with the emerging church because (per Driscoll’s words) “it held a low view of truth and was gaining momentum as a gathering point for all kinds of aberrant Christian doctrinal agendas.”
I’m starting to garner more and more respect for Mark Driscoll.
Oh … by the Emergent Church … do you mean:
ATM’s in the church lobby and Coffee houses in the fellowship hall?
Jesus, your Personal Lord and Savior being given a makeover, and who now is your Life Coach?
“A church building” now being called “a campus” or a “satellite church”?
A church who is more concerned with “reaching them” than “preaching them”?
Reliance on “Purpose-Driven Life” and “Your Best Life Now” rather than the living, inspired Word Of God?
Churches with generic names, such as “Town Creek Gathering Center”, because “we certainly wouldn’t want anyone to be offended by the gospel”?
Confused congregations, where half the congregation believes in the gifts of the Spirit [and the other half doesn't], and it’s like when Paul was between the Pharisees and Sadduccees [in a debate about angels and the resurrection - Acts 23:8
], and the church leadership won’t take a clear stand on any issue, but just lets anything go?
Churches who are more focused on the methodologies, than on the messages those methodologies are supposed to preach?
Churches who use psychological reasoning from Dr. Phil to justify their “niche evangelism”, where they have target markets and demographic audiences, and who only include certain segments of the population ["people groups"]?
Church leaders who refuse to take a stand against sin, who view the church as a psychologist’s couch rather than as the pillar and ground of the truth?
Churches who give more emphasis to the seeker than to the Sought?
An atmosphere where the free-for-all anything-goes unaccountablity of house churches is given tacit approval?
A loosely-gathered network of souls, who resemble a pack of loose rams acting at will, rather than resembling a herd of submitted, humble sheep listening to the Shepherd’s voice?
Church doctrines which emphasize exciting trend over established tradition?
Pastors who don’t give a rat’s patootie if you come to church, nor ever express interest in your spiritual condition, but like the Levite and the Priest, pass by your broken, bleeding body on Jericho Road, on their way to the temple to do God service, secure in the knowledge that as long as their situation is fine, the whole world’s fine?
Preachers who view prayer no longer as a holy act of communion between an awesome Eternal God and a human clay figure made of flesh, but who now reduce the importance of prayer down to a series of conversations between two ships passing in the night?