Brian McLaren's Book, The Secret Message of Jesus
by Berit Kjos
Who Defines the Kingdom of God?

Where is the Kingdom of God?  How inclusive is it? Who defines the terms?  Today's emerging church has already moved the boundaries of His Kingdom. It has redefined God's Word and is fast embracing the latest versions of the old Gnostic quest for secret knowledge (gnosis) and self-actualization, whether through mystical experience or collective imagination.

Stamping out faith in Biblical absolutes is central to this transformation. A mind anchored in God's Word won't compromise, but when that anchor is removed, the current of change can carry that mind anywhere. As Jesuit scholastic, Mark Mossa, wrote in his endorsement of Brian McLaren's latest book: "The Secret Message of Jesus challenges us to put aside our sterile certainties about Christ and reconsider the imaginative world of Jesus stories, signs and wonders." Read Entire Article, Who Defines the Kingdom of God (a critique of The Secret Message of Jesus)

An Enemy of the Cross?
Is Brian McLaren becoming an enemy of the Cross of Jesus Christ? While his signature and endorsement on the back of such books as Tony Campolo's Speaking My Mind and Dave Fleming's The Seeker's Way, was horrible enough, that was mild compared to what he has now done.

In the midst of the Purpose Driven craze and an apparently sleeping church, Brian McLaren has endorsed a book that calls the doctrine of the Cross a vile doctrine.
(p. 168, Reimagining Christianity - Alan Jones)

That book? None other than Alan Jones' new book, Reimagining Christianity. Alan Jones is an interspiritualist and mystic. Take a look at the Living Spiritual Teachers Project, of which Jones is involved. This group of about twenty-five includes Zen and Buddhist monks, New Agers and even Marianne Williamson and her Course in Miracles.

"Brian McLaren wants us to learn more about 'meditative practices, about which Zen Buddhism has said much. To talk about different things is not to contradict one another; it is, rather, to have much to offer one another' (A Generous Orthodoxy, p. 255.) Can Zen Buddhism have something to offer that would improve a Christian's spiritual life when the Bible teaches us that we are already partakers of Christ Jesus' divine nature? (2 Peter 1:3-11) McLaren cites contemplative meditation promoter Richard Foster as one of the key mentors for the Emergent movement."—Spiritual Fusion: East comes West, Mike Oppenheimer, Let Us Reason Ministries

New Age Leonard Sweet
and Brian McLaren have a new book.
A is for Abductive:
The Language of the Emerging Church

"McLaren reveals his true stripes when he goes on, in the same article, to make this uninspiring judgment: 'I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.' What else can this mean but that McLaren denies the teachings of the conservative Christian community of which he pretends to be a part? What else can this mean but that those who ascribe to the faith’s historic fundamentals are just as doctrinally retarded as those who mock the fundamentals?"
—Anthony Paul Mator, Postmodern Antiquity: "Emerging Church" Claims Pre-Modern Roots