Ronnie W. Rogers, “Taking every thought captive…”

Miss California, Carrie Prejean, 21, competed in the Miss USA pageant, and may have very well lost when she told a nationwide TV audience that she believed marriage should be between a man and a woman. The question was asked by Perez Hilton, who is homosexual, and as one of 12 judges was randomly picked to ask the question.

With regard to the whole situation she told NBC’s “Today” show, “It’s not about being politically correct. For me, it was being biblically correct.” She added, regarding her missed opportunity to win the crown, “It wasn’t what God wanted for my life that night.”

She told Fox News, “By having to answer that question in front of a national audience, God was testing my character and faith…I’m glad I stayed true to myself.”

May pastors and Christians everywhere be so bold to speak the truth of God in such a loving way.  She may have forfeited the Miss USA crown, but I see upon her head an eternal crown of faithfulness. 

Prejean is a student at San Diego Christian College in El Cajon, just outside San Diego, and a volunteer at Shadow Mountain Community Church’s International Ministry Center, where she helps refugees learn English, the Christian Examiner reported. Shadow Mountain is a Southern Baptist church where popular TV and radio minister David Jeremiah is pastor. The Examiner reported Prejean is studying to become an elementary school special education teacher.

The emergent church proclaims that they are seeking to reach this generation of postmoderns.  While I applaud that goal, I am quite concerned with the message of most of the emergent church.  I mention four areas that I have noticed being promoted by emergent leaders. (more…)

Billy Wolf has provided me with a chart that succinctly summarizes some of the fundamental differences between a biblical view of scriptural doctrines and the teaching of the postmodern emergent church.  Although the emergent church leaders may be good writers, winsome, and quite capable of persuading young men and women who have little knowledge of the Scripture, they are actually communicating some of the same distortions that have been taught by liberalism or neo-orthodoxy in the past, albeit with a little different twist. 

These are not stylistic differences or ancillary doctrines; they are distorting the essential truths of the Scripture.  They have in many cases become too much like the ones to whom they are seeking to be relevant.  Thus, if they reach these postmoderns, many remain lost because too much truth was sacrificed in the quest for relevance.

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