{"id":783,"date":"2008-02-13T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/13\/asking-unbelievers-to-help-reinvent-christianity.html"},"modified":"2016-01-01T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:04:54","slug":"asking-unbelievers-to-help-reinvent-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepropheticyears.com\/wordpress\/asking-unbelievers-to-help-reinvent-christianity.html","title":{"rendered":"Asking unbelievers to help reinvent Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">So here you have a conference led by apostates. Inviting unbelievers to re-think or re-invent Christianity. In other words, they wish to made Christianity more relevant to the postmodern generation that does not believe in the\u00a0absolute truths defined in the Bible. They want a Christianity without biblical doctrine where all religions are equal paths to God. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The conference premise\u00a0is so absurd that anyone who bought into the concept might as well call themselves by some other name besides Christians. They may believe in\u00a0the apostasy of\u00a0universalism but they do\u00a0not\u00a0believe or follow\u00a0the teachings of Jesus Christ. <\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"clear: left; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% #ffffff; margin: 12px 0px; width: 100%; color: #333333; font-family: arial; border: 4px solid #ff33ff;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"CM_CTB_Content_Wrap\" style=\"margin: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 0px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<table style=\"font-size: 10px; background-image: url(http:\/\/clipmarks.com\/images\/source-bg.gif); margin-bottom: 8px; padding-bottom: 4px; vertical-align: middle; color: #666666; line-height: 24px; border-bottom: 1px solid #dcdcdc; background-repeat: repeat-x; white-space: nowrap; height: 24px; background-color: #eeeeee;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">clipped from <a style=\"font-size: 11px;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.christianworldviewnetwork.com\/article.php\/3086\/Jan_Markell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldviewweekend.com\/news\/article\/why-must-christianity-be-re-invented\">CWN<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"padding-right: 8px; padding-left: 8px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; border: medium none;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/www.christianworldviewnetwork.com\/article.php\/3086\/Jan_Markell --><span>The Schuller \u201cRe-Think\u201d event was co-hosted by Emergent leader Erwin McManus. Many Christian and secular leaders were invited, and it begs the question, Why are secular people speaking about \u201cre-inventing Christianity?\u201d <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"padding-right: 8px; padding-left: 8px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; border: medium none;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/www.christianworldviewnetwork.com\/article.php\/3086\/Jan_Markell --><span>Just a few of the participants included Emergent Dan Kimball, Larry King, Gary Smalley, George Barna, Lee Strobel, Kay Warren (wife of Rick), George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Henry Cloud, and of course, co-host Erwin McManus. <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"padding-right: 8px; padding-left: 8px; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 4px 0px 8px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; border: medium none;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><!-- CLIPPED FROM: http:\/\/www.christianworldviewnetwork.com\/article.php\/3086\/Jan_Markell --><span>Roger Oakland states, \u201cI hope and pray that Erwin McManus, Robert Schuller, and others will \u2018re-think\u2019 the direction in which they are heading. I pray they will start proclaiming the gospel according to the Scriptures. I pray they will begin to warn about the many unbiblical ideas that are driving the unsuspecting toward an apostate church. 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