{"id":1516,"date":"2008-12-03T21:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/03\/emergent-church-leader-tony-jones-now-wants-christians-to-bless-homosexually.html"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T20:58:45","slug":"emergent-church-leader-tony-jones-now-wants-christians-to-bless-homosexually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/emergent-church-leader-tony-jones-now-wants-christians-to-bless-homosexually.html","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Church leader Tony Jones now wants Christians to embrace homosexually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Jones and many other Emergent Church Movement leaders continue to conform to the thinking of an increasingly demented world. If these ECM leaders cannot accept or understand the doctrines the Bible clearly teaches why should anyone in true Christianity even regard them as Christians? They are corrupting the youth of Christians but apparently some Christians think we should just accommodate them and allow them to continue. What would Paul say? It is time for Christian Church leaders to totally separate from these heretical leaders and to regard them as pagans.<\/p>\n<p><em>1 Ti 6:3\u00a0 If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even <strong>the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;<\/strong><br \/>\n4\u00a0 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,<br \/>\n5\u00a0 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: <strong>from such withdraw thyself.<\/strong><\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111012234936\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=4258\">Christian Worldview Network &#8211; Brannon Howse &#8211; Tony Jones\u2019 continuous leftward slide into apostasy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Evidently Tony Jones doesn\u2019t believe in God\u2019s transforming power as he has now<br \/>\nconcluded that Christians must embrace homosexuality:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> <\/span><strong><em><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span lang=\"EN\">\u201c<span>I now believe that GLBTQ can live lives in accord with biblical<br \/>\nChristianity (at least as much as any of us can!) and that their<br \/>\nmonogamy can and should be sanctioned and blessed by church and state.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cLiberalism\u2026is not Christianity at all, or, at best, a corrupt version. As J. Gresham Machen argued so eloquently in the last century, liberal Christianity has many appealing features, and much to commend it. In many ways it is a quite fascinating and alluring religion. It even uses all the language of Christianity and holds Jesus in high esteem. But for all that, liberal Christianity just isn\u2019t Christianity. Indeed, Machen argued, it\u2019s not even close.\u201d [4]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tony Jones\u2019 version of Christianity is corrupt.  What he professes is not the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.  In fact, the ECM has all the earmarks of a cult \u2013 what Dr. Walter Martin called the \u201ccult of liberal theology.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111012234936\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=4258\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>should conservative Christians worry about the ECM\u2019s unorthodox teaching and their continual attacks against the historic fundamentals of the faith? Would it be better to just ignore these people and pray that the movement will soon fade away?   Or should we fight it tooth and nail?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLet\u2019s not be confused here nor be too hasty to dismiss Tony Jones\u2019 influence not only within the emergent church, but within the broader professing church itself.  It\u2019s easy to think; \u201cWell, he\u2019s only one guy and there is a lot of bad teaching out there\u201d, but if you\u2019re a discerning Christian you will have noticed by now that the post-modern vain philosophies of the emergent\/emerging church are deeply infecting the Biblically illiterate youth of our day who are being fed a steady diet of spiritual poison while sitting under the teaching of hirelings.  Men like Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt, Rob Bell, Dan Kimball and Brian McLaren are influencing an entire generation to embrace vain traditions and a re-imagined theology that runs contrary to the historic, orthodox tenets which are fundamental to the Christian faith itself!  This is nothing less than a Counter-Reformation!\u201d [8]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll close with a quote from renowned theologian, Dr. R.C. Sproul:<\/p>\n<p><em>In every age the church is threatened by heresy, and heresy is bound up in false doctrine. It is the desire of all heretics to minimize the importance of doctrine. When doctrine is minimized, heresy can exercise itself without restraint.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111012234936\/http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/worldview-times\/article.php?articleid=4258\" target=\"_blank\">Full article<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Jones and many other Emergent Church Movement leaders continue to conform to the thinking of an increasingly demented world. If these ECM leaders cannot accept or understand the doctrines the Bible clearly teaches why should anyone in true Christianity even regard them as Christians? 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