The Submerging Church | movie | 2012 | Official Trailer
Journey with us as we take a closer look at the Emergent Church, its leaders, their teachings and where it is all headed | dG1fV0hUZ1E4enM0Z28
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00:00The biggest mistake that churches make is we think that sermons will produce spiritual
00:29maturity.
00:30Now from way back when, our ancestors understood that there's something divine about our breath.
00:52Are you suggesting to me that heaven is actually a place?
00:55The place of God is an individual place that you go?
01:06God is not a provable commodity.
01:08All the evidence in the world does not prove God.
01:15Now I believe that everyone who deserves to be saved will be saved no matter where they
01:25are or what they do.
01:26I believe that everyone who deserves to be saved will be saved no matter where they are
01:27or what they do.
01:55The emergent church, a loosely connected group of Christian churches rebelling against the
02:12cultural war going on in this country when it comes to religion.
02:20I just don't believe in Christianity anymore.
02:23In a sense, you're creating a Christian message that's warm, kind, and popular.
02:28That rejection of the judgmental God and an embrace of an image of a loving, accepting
02:34God.
02:35The cross isn't the center then.
02:36The cross is almost a distraction and false advertising for God.
02:41So here comes Rob Bell, he's made a Christian gospel for you and it's perfectly palatable,
02:46it's much easier to swallow.
02:47That's what you've done, haven't you?
02:48Our purpose is to bring heaven to earth.
02:55With Bono, here's a guy who is a rock singer who has done more to articulate what Christianity
03:01is really about than most of we preachers.
03:03We're looking for some kind of a new moral center.
03:06The person who's done more than anybody to promote these is Bono.
03:09Gosh, if the churches won't get involved, the rock stars will have to cry out.
03:14And so Bono, you know, raise up Bono.
03:17You're leaving out the tough stuff.
03:19You do have to, you know, confine yourself to certain moral strictures if you want to
03:24call yourself a Christian.
03:27I would disagree with them.
03:29According to this critic, unbiblical and historically unreliable.
03:34That's true, isn't it?
03:35I am a gay affirming pastor, which means I don't see it as a sin.
03:43The church is a whore.
03:46And she's my mother.
03:47We're a preacher in Michigan who says there's really no hell.
03:51I believe the man is a false teacher.
03:54I believe he's a heretic.
03:56There's power in listening to the heretic.
03:59And today I actually think that we need to listen to a few heretics.