Virginia Baptists (BGAV) Promoting Emergent Phyllis Tickle

The Baptist General Association of Virginia's (BGAV) Mission Board shares The Parish Paper :

The Virginia Baptist Mission Board is proud to provide copies of the Parish Paper free of charge to members of our constituency!

Co-edited by knowledge experts Herb Miller, Lyle Schaller, and Cynthia Woolever, monthly issues of The Parish Paper provide ideas, insights, research-findings, and practical methods that strengthen the effectiveness of congregations in accomplishing God’s purposes through their various ministries.

The April 2010 edition asks the question: What Can We Learn from the Emerging Church Movement? ( Good timing considering the 2010 BGAV's 21-C church growth conference was immersed in emergent methodology).

Within the text is favorable reference to emergent mystic and author, Phyllis Tickle. The article claims that the emergent movement is no threat to Christianity.

Oh, really?

Listen to Phyllis Tickle in her own words describe the following:

• Ancient mystic's interpretation of the Christian history
• God is both male & female, both father and mother, God is both man and woman
• We are hearing more about the FACT ( emphasis mine ) that all religions are the same...they go to the same place...to the same God. They differ in their cultural context

• All religions have their own mysteries. We must hold on to the mysteries that make us Christians
• Judaism held to the concept that the voice of God loved men so much, the "she sent her daughter" to speak with men. Known as "the daughter of the voice of God."

And here's the grand finale....

• An erotic relationship exists between man and "the daughter of the voice of God."
• When we take communion we are eating our God, the body and blood of our God ( that is the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation )
• We are "FEEDING THE "GOD" WITHIN US".
• The Spirit is reinvigorated within us as we take those elements

Thanks to Chris Rosebrough at The Museum of Idolatry for the audio clips.

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See more of the dangers of the emerging church movement and the growing apostasy within the Baptist General Association of Virginia.