I want to begin this post with a portion of an article quoting Rob Bell and his wife Kristen. For those of you who don't know much about these Emerging leaders and pastors, this will give you a good chance to see some of their aberrant views:

  
"The Bells started questioning their assumptions about the Bible itself¡ª"discovering the Bible as a human product," as Rob puts it, rather than the product of divine fiat. "The Bible is still in the center for us," Rob says, "but it's a different kind of center. We want to embrace mystery, rather than conquer it." "I grew up thinking that we've figured out the Bible," Kristen says, "that we knew what it means. Now I have no idea what most of it (the Bible) means. And yet I feel like life is big again¡ªlike life used to be black and white, and now it's in color."

 

And I want to continue by sharing with you the most recent post from the PryoManiacs blog. Once every week, they take the opportunity to post an excerpt from a C.H. Spurgeon article or sermon. Almost always, what Spurgeon had to say in his day is extremely (and almost uncannily!) relevant to the so-called "postmodern" emergent fads of today. Check out today's post:

Your weekly dose of Spurgeon
posted by Phil Johnson

very day produces some improved divinity. Every now and then, to suit the times, a new edition of the Gospel is issued. Young gentlemen at college are taught not to preach the common ordinary doctrines, such as John Calvin, St. Augustine, and the Apostle Paul preached; they must go to Germany and muddle their own heads, and then come forth to muddle other people's, they must have some philosophical divinity, some novelty, something more refined than that which would attract the mob and gather together the common people.

Thinking people must be cared for; sermons must be full of intellectual matter; the old apostles were but fishermen, and of course they could not preach more than fishermen's education would enable them to comprehend, but these gentlemen have taken their degrees, and can climb to far greater heights and descend into far profounder depths than plain Peter or illiterate John.

Well, dear friends, we are content with the old wine since it is the best; Christ's gospel is no new gospel; and moreover, we are old-fashioned enough to believe that not one doctrine is to be altered, nor half a doctrine, nor the thousandth part of a doctrine, no nor yet the form of a doctrine. We would "hold fast the form of sound words"¡ªnot only the principle mark, but the words; and not only the words, but the very form in which the words were moulded.

"Words, words, words," says somebody; "what is the use of words, and forms, and creeds? Why, these are old musty crusty documents, only sectarians care about them."

Ay, then let us be sectarians; let us hold with force and strength of mind the very form of sound words which has been delivered unto us. Not one of the stakes shall be removed, nor one of the cords thereof be loosened.

 

(By the way, the original PyroManiac Phil Johnson is also the founder of The Spurgeon Archive, from which his weekly doses of Spurgeon are inevitably gleaned.)