Wild Goose Festival: A One World Church?‏

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The third annual 2013 Wild Goose Festival was attended by some 2,000 people last month in North Carolina and was focused on "unity" through social action - A.K.A. Social Justice. What was it all about? Let's take a quick look at some of the details...

Wild Goose Festival: A One World Church?

Some of the speakers included at this Wild Goose Festival were Emergent Church - “progressives” - such as:

• Phyllis Tickle
• Brian McLaren
• Philip Yancy
• Frank Schaeffer

These speakers represented “Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Muslim.” In attendance were Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, and others. The four main elements that are uniting progressives and evangelicals, liberals and “conservatives,” Catholics and Protestants, Christians and non-Christians are:

• Kingdom building/Dominion Theology (saving the planet, disarmament, eliminating poverty)
• Downplaying the importance of Biblical Doctrine
• Contemporary/Secular music
• Contemplative Prayer

And thus creating the end-time one-world “church” prophesied in the Scriptures.

Eric Elnes, one of the Wild Goose speakers said:

“Christians from different  denominations and cultural backgrounds begin to see that theology becomes less important than the relationships necessary for addressing social challenges” - “So Many Baptists at Wild Goose,” Associated Baptist Press, Aug. 9, 2013

Phyllis Tickle, one of the founders of Wild Goose, rejoices that evangelicals, charismatics, Protestants, and Catholics are merging:

“Where the quadrants meet in the center there’s a vortex like a whirlpool and they are blending” - “The Future of the Emerging Church” - Leadership Magazine, Mar. 19, 2007

These people are not merely changing doctrines - they are changing gods! This is evident by the popularity of The Shack, which presents God as a non-judgmental woman.

Sarah Cunningham, another Wild Goose speaker this year, concluded her talk with a prayer to:

“the God of the evangelicals and the progressives and everyone in between”

But God is not the god in a redemption sense of those who deny or downplay the necessity of the blood atonement and the new birth, doubt the divine inspiration of Scripture, and corrupt the doctrines of the New Testament faith. These are spiritual high crimes in which Phyllis Tickle, Brian McLaren, and many other Wild Goose participants are guilty of as well documented in the book What Is the Emerging Church?

Tickle says that the doctrine of “sola scriptura” is outdated and must be left behind - The Great Emergence, pp. 47, 151.

McLaren says the Bible is:

“not a look-it-up encyclopedia of moral truths”

And he has:

“a strong conviction that the exclusive, hell-oriented gospel is not the way forward” - A Generous Orthodoxy, p. 190 and p. 120, f. 48

McLaren’s objective is not to preach the gospel to lost sinners before it is too late; his objective is:

“about changing this world” - Everything Must Change, p. 23

McLaren wrote a glowing recommendation of Alan Jones’ book Reimagining Christianity, in which Jones calls the gospel of the cross a vile doctrine, claims that there is no objective authority, and says that Hindus and Buddhists are God’s people.

It is a fact that Buddhists and Hindus practice the same contemplative prayer methodology as a means of getting into an altered state of consciousness. My question is simply this: Should Christians embrace the same methods used by pagans to get with God? The Bible is clear – No! What god will they get in touch with?

 

We must heed these words from the Prophet Jeremiah to the people he was called to warn:

And the Lord said to me, “A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers. Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to escape; and though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them” – Jeremiah 11:9-11

Do you see the desperate need for Jeremiah’s message today? Being led away from God and His Word by seducing spirits and doctrines of demons is a serious offense.

The Emerging Church Movement presently underway is riddled with teachings that contradict God’s Word. The supporters of this movement may be sincere in their efforts to reinvent Christianity for the sake of reaching this generation by making the “narrow way” a “wide way” as spoken of by Jesus Himself:

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it – Matthew 7:13-14

It’s time to wake up Bible-believing Christians... or we will suffer the dire consequences!

More information: Friday Church News Notes, August 16, 2013, www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org

Keep looking up and sharing the Gospel while there is still time… Hallelujah and Maranatha – come quickly Lord Jesus!


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