Sensationalist “Heretics”
I haven’t done this in a while, this is a reply of sorts to Spencer Burke’s article “The Illusion of the ‘Emerging Church’” which can be found at: http://www.theooze.com/articles/article.cfm?id=2407.
I find commenting on these kinds of articles difficult, not because I don’t know what to say (often times, I have too many things to say and don’t know where to begin), but because I don’t so much disagree (though I do disagree) as find a few of the things being said to be unwise. Spencer Burke is an author, and in my mind that makes him a teacher, a leader, and someone who other people look up to and follow. One of the things Burke says that bothers me is, “I know I have had my fair share of heretical moments and I live by the motto ‘If I am not a little embarrassed about what … (Read more)
Who are the heretics?
For did not Arius first, Socinus now
The Son’s eternal Godhead disavow?
And did not these by Gospel texts alone
Condemn our doctrine and maintain their own?
Have not all heretics the same pretence,
To plead the Scriptures in their own defense?
-‘The Hind and the Panther,’ part 2, lines 150–155… (Read more)
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