If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
Augustine
...the emergent church is the latest version of liberalism. The only difference is that old liberalism accommodated modernity and the new liberalism accomodates postmodernity.
Mark Driscoll
Emerging Churches define themselves as those:
1. Who take the life of Jesus as a model way to live
2. Who transform the secular realm
3. As they live highly communal lives.
Because of these three activities, emerging churches
4. Welcome those who are outside
5. Share generously
6. Participate
7. Create
8. Lead without control and
9. Function together in spiritual activities.
Boiling it down to one sentence: Emerging Churches are...communities who practice the way of Jesus within postmodern cultures.
Comment: please notice that all of the above emerging principles are not about what Christ has done for us, but what we do for him. The true gospel is news about what Christ has already done for us as a Savior, rather than instruction and advice about what you are to do for God. The primacy of his accomplishment, not ours, is the essence of our faith. The gospel of Christ above all brings news, rather than instruction.
| Title |
Notes |
Christless Christianity  |
Michael S. Horton |
| Eros Spirituality vs. Agape Faith |
David F. Wells |
| Journey: Are the Pilgrims Still Making Progress (.pdf) |
Kevin DeYoung & Ted Kluck |
| Jumping Off the Mark: A Response to Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis |
Dale VanDyke |
| Deconstructing Uncertainty |
John Hendryx & Nathan Pitchford |
| A Kingdom Without a King? Evaluating the Kingdom Ethic(s) of the Emerging Church |
Todd Miles (pdf) - Southern Baptist Theological Journal (2008) |
| Preaching As Concept Creation, Not Just Contextualization |
John Piper |
| What is Emergence/the Emergent Church? |
Monergism FAQ |
| Postmodern Epistemology: A Critique of Stanley J. Grenz & John R. Franke |
John D. Wilsey (pdf) |
| Give Me Doctrine or Give Me Death |
Greg Gilbert |
| Experiencing Emergent |
Shane Rosenthal |
| Summarizing my criticism of the Emerging Church Movement |
Phil Johnson |
| Emergent Pastor Erwin McManus Plays Dominoes with God’s Sovereignty |
Ron Foster |
| Rob Bell “Undefines” Holiness |
Bob DeWaay |
| Is Rob Bell Evangelical? |
Ken Silva |
| SADDLEBACK CHURCH PASTORS USING ROB BELL TEACHINGS |
Ken Silva |
| Wearing Our Faith: the Purpose and Effectiveness of Bumper Stickers and Christian Clothes |
Alan Noble |
| Natural Vs. Supernatural Religion |
David Wells |
| McLaren’s “gospel” |
Lee Irons |
| Indeed, Has Paul Really Said (.pdf) 1.89MB |
Pastor M. J. Beasley |
| Understanding the postmodern mind and the emerging church |
C Michael Patton |
| The Gospel in All its Forms |
Tim Keller |
| What are the Risks for Evangelicals? |
Tim Keller |
| Brian McLaren and the Gospel of Here & Now |
Greg Gilbert |
| The Arrogance of the Emergent Church Movement |
Ron Gleason |
| Rob Bell makes me angry: a pastoral response to Velvet Elvis |
Pat Abendroth |
| The Scoop'a on NOOMA -- (Part 1-3) |
Greg Gilbert |
| DRISCOLL - MARK'S HILL CHURCH...the unbiblical, sectarian cult of personality |
Steve Camp |
| Summary on Emergent/Emerging Church |
Darrel Bock |
| That Good Old Narrative Trajectory |
Douglas Wilson |
| Does Doctrine Really Matter? |
John MacArthur |
| Understanding the Emergent Church |
Walter Henegar - “I think God had a PR problem.” |
| Emerging Theology, Liberal Politics |
Collin Hansen |
| Does Emergence Christianity And Brian McLaren Really Love Gay People? |
Ken Silva |
| Should We Fight for the Truth? |
John MacArthur |
| What's Emerging in the Church? |
Jeffrey Jue |
| Apocalypse Now: No Turning Back |
Phil Johnson |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church Part I |
Sam Storms |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church (Part II) |
Sam Storms |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church (Part III) |
Sam Storms |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church (Part IV) |
Sam Storms |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church (Part V) |
Sam Storms |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church (Part VI) |
Sam Storms |
| D. A. Carson Critiques the Emerging Church (Part VII) |
Dr. Sam Storms |
| New Attitude (MP3) |
(Breakout: Justin Taylor) “A Kind of Christianity? A Look at the Emerging Church Movement.” |
| Essential Concerns Regarding the Emerging Church |
Brett Kunkle (.pdf) |
| Pastor's and Theologian's Forum on the Emerging Church |
D. A. Carson, Mark Driscoll, Michael Horton, Mike McKinley, Daniel Montgomery, Brent Thomas, Carl Trueman, and Jonathan Leeman. "While the Emergent 'conversation' gets a lot of press for its appeal to the young, the Reformed movement may |
| The Emerging Consequences of Whose Ideas? |
If ideas have consequences, it’s worth asking whose theology books are being read in the Emergent classroom.Contributions from J. Ligon Duncan, Gregg Allison, Jim Hamilton, Stephen Wellum, and more. |
| Book Reviews: The Radical Reformission & Confessions of a Reformission Rev |
Mike McKinley - Review of Mark Driscoll's Books |
| The Emerging Church (Part 1) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| The Emerging Church (Part 2) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| The Emerging Church (Part 3) |
Gary E. Gilley |
| Emerging or Re-Emerging |
Pastor Bryan Stupar |
| Contextualizing the Gospel in an Egalitarian World |
Jonathan Leeman |
| Why "the Emerging Conversation" is going nowhere |
Phil Johnson |
| "The Emergent Church" |
Richard Bennett |
| The Adequacy of Human Language” |
J. I. Packer—An Outline Summary |
| Appropriate Response to the Emerging Church Movement |
David Kowalksi |
| Reinventing Calvinism - A Generous Heresy |
Steve Camp |
| The Secret Message of Jesus |
Brian McLaren book review by Gary Gilley |
| Absolutely Not! Exposing the postmodern errors of the emerging church |
Phil Johnson |
| The Emerging Church |
D. A. Carson |
| A critical look at the emerging church movement |
Phil Johnson |
| Understanding the Emerging Church |
Ed Stetzer |
| Future or Fad: A Look at the Emerging Church Movement |
Scott McKnight |
| McLaren the Censorious |
(chapter 0) |
| Rich Christians In An Age of Expensive Authenticity |
(chapter 1) |
| The Old "Me and C.S. Lewis" Ploy |
(chapter 2) |
| McLaren the Ungenerous |
(chapter 3) |
| Making Your Back Teeth Cold |
(chapter 4) |
| Postmod or Postmill? |
(chapter 5) |
| Trying to Freeze the Linebackers |
(chapter 6) |
| Propositional Dust Bunnies |
(chapter 7) |
| "Deep" Confidence or Deep "Confidence"? |
(chapter 9) |
| Mother Church? |
Derek Thomas, Reformation 21 |
| Can't we all just get along? |
postmodernist standards is a losing proposition by Phil Johnson |
| The Emergent Church - A New Wave of Evangelical Identity |
Steven W. Cornell |
| The Emerging Church |
Geoff Thomas Banner of Truth |
| Emergent Church Archive |
Articles related to the Emerging Church (also known as the Emerging Church) focusing on the theology and leadership of the movement. @Challies.com |
| Brian McLaren's TULIP |
Tim Challies |
| Pomo Ponderings -10 Questions about Postmodern Ministry |
Kevin Miller, Leadership editor-at-large, April, 2003 |
| Has the Emergent Church Emerged? |
Rob Moll Leadership Journal, December 2003 |
| The Emergent Mystique |
Andy Crouch |
| "A Generous Orthodoxy"--Is It Orthodox? |
Albert Mohler |
| The Emergent Church |
Justin Taylor " |
| Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, and The Emerging Church |
(.doc) and " |
| Critiquing McLaren & the Emerging Church |
R. Scott Smith - two chapters from unpublished book |
| Leaders call ‘Emerging Church Movement’ a threat to Gospel |
David Roach |
| The Death Knell for the Emergent Church Movement |
Ron Gleason |
| EMERGENT DELUSION A CRITIQUE OF A Generous Orthodoxy |
BY BRIAN MCLAREN BY BOB DEWAAY (Pdf) |
| Contemplative Spiritual Formation |
Critique |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 8 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 7 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 6 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 5 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 4 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 3 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 2 |
by Justin Taylor |
| What Is the Emerging Church Movement? Part 1 |
by Justin Taylor |
| Lesslie Newbigin, The Gospel in a Pluralist Society and the "Emergent Church" movement |
Reviewed by Dennis McCallum |
| Emerging or Re-Emerging |
Pastor Bryan Stupar |
| Postmodernism and the Emerging Church Movement |
David Kowalski |
| How Can I Be Sure? |
Phil Johnson |
| Christianity vs. Jesusanity -- The Postmodern Temptation |
Al mohler |
| Everything Hasn't Changed |
John Wilson |
| Introducing the Emerging Church, Part 2 |
John MacArthur |
| A Conversational Approach: Will it Preach? |
Mike Gilbart-Smith (9Marks) - An Interaction with O. Wesley Allen Jr, The Homiletic of All Believers: A Conversational Approach and Doug Pagitt, Preaching Re-imagined: The Role of the Sermon in Communities of Faith |
| Introducing the Emerging Church, Part 1 |
John MacArthur |
| Better Than Any Fad |
Phil Johnson |
| Uncertainty Is the New Truth |
Phil Johnson, John MacArthur |
| Brian McLaren and the Clarity of Scripture, Part 4 |
John MacArthur |
| Brian McLaren and the Clarity of Scripture, Part 3 |
John MacArthur |
| Brian McLaren and the Clarity of Scripture, Part 2 |
John MacArthur |
| The Neo-Anabaptists |
Kevin DeYoung |
| Would the Real Emerger Please Stand Up? |
C Michael Patton |
| The Kingdom of Emergent Theology - Part 2 |
Gary Gilley |
| Rob Bell’s Abstract “Elvis: A Critique of Velvet Elvis |
Bob DeWaay |
| Brian McLaren and the Clarity of Scripture, Part 1 |
John MacArthur |
| Brian McLaren and the Clarity of Scripture, Part 5 |
John MacArthur |
| A Narrative Approach: Will it Preach? |
Mark Driscoll |
| "Brian McLaren, Tony Jones, and The Emerging Church (doc) |
R. Scott Smith - chapter from an unpublished book |
| Critiquing McLaren & the Emerging Church (doc) |
R. Scott Smith - chapters from unpublished book |
| The Kingdom of Emergent Theology - Part 1 |
Gary Gilley |
| Book Review: “Everything Must Change” by Brian McLaren |
Tim Challies |
| Emerging Confusion |
Charles Colson with Anne Morse |
| Paul on Mars Hill (part 1) |
Phil Johnson |
| Rob Bell, the Pastor’s Task of Discernment, and My Heart |
Sovereign Grace Ministries - C.J. Mahaney |
| Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith (Part I) |
Rev. Casey Freswick |
| Postmodern Liberalism: Repainting a Non-Christian Faith (Part II) |
Rev. Casey Freswick |
| Context and Contextualization |
Phil Johnson |
| Seeds of Compassion Event: Rob Bell, Doug Pagitt with Dalai Lama |
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| Emergent Church Archive |
Apprising Ministries |
| The Wind in the Sails |
Frank Turk |
| 5 Reasons Why the Emerging Church is Now Receding |
Trevin Wax |
| The Call to the Emerging Church |
Dr. Richard J. Krejcir |
| An Emerging Understanding of Orthodox (.pdf) |
C. Michael Patton |
| This Unique Moment |
David Wells |
| Erasmus and Post-Conservativism |
Dr. James McDonald |
| A Review of Scot McKnight's The Blue Parakeet |
Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner |
| Grunge Christianity? |
John MacArthur |
| The Emerging Church and the Cultural Captivity of the Gospel |
Martin Downes |
| The Public Rebuke of False Teachers |
James MacDonald |
| Why Brian McLaren is like my Palm Pilot |
James MacDonald |
| The Kingdom of Emergent Theology - Part 3 |
Gary Gilley |
| Emergent Old Fashioned Liberalism |
Bob Dewaay |
| Obituary: The Emerging Church |
C Michael Patton |
| “Help, my church is going emergent!” |
Kevin DeYoung |
| Book Review: A Generous Orthodoxy by Brian McLaren |
Levi Felton |
| Is Dialogue a Basis for Christian Unity? |
Kevin DeYoung |
| Book Review: Deep Church: A Third Way? |
Kevin DeYoung |
| Shane Hipps, Co-Pastor with Rob Bell, Says All Religions Valid |
Ken Silva |
Emerging Church (Multimedia) (53 links)
Why We're Not Emergent 
The Courage to Be Protestant 
Whatever Happened to Truth?