My Fear

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Here is my fear with Postmodernism and the Emerging Church, that too many people are letting go of their faith. Some like to think they have entered the question, but I see something else. I see deception. What do I mean by that? I mean that they have adopted Postmodernism in the sense that it neglects the essence of the bible and of God's character.
I have noticed a lot of discussion happening where instead of reading God's word, thinking upon it, looking outside for God's character that it has become about, "well, I read that the bible says this, but MY opinion is......" Then on top of that dismiss scholars if it does not align with their opinion. And what they see as a "faith crisis" is actually a spiritual crisis. You see I believe fully in spiritual warfare. I believe it is all around us. I believe that just like modernism, that satan can use postmodernism and the EC to lead people down another path. The path may look like God's path, but it is not. And satan has done a wonderful job of masking something that looks like a "crisis in faith" but at the end of the day it was something far more deeper. We fall for it because it looks like God and in our opinion this is how God would be.

But let me also speak on the other hand. On the other hand I have seen that people who are truly entering a mystery, truly entering into something they never knew, taking God with them and allowing faith to get them through what cannot be explained in human thought. I am more comfortable around people who don't rely on history of "this is biblical", but that rely on what "I don't know, let's find out". I am more comfortable with people opening their eyes and seeing the Postmodern environment that is slowly moving closer to us and letting God reveal himself through that environment. This to me is a "crisis in faith". It takes more faith to rely on the character of God than to readjust him to what we cannot handle.

I hope that as the growth in the EC and in the Postmodern environment we find ourselves more having a true "crisis in faith" instead of finding ourselves in a spiritual deception or a "spiritual crisis". And with that we tread lightly on the things we do not know and let faith truly be in the places where God can define us instead of us defining him.