Is the emerging church movement just another passing fad, a more contemporary approach to church, or a bunch of disillusioned young people looking for answers? In fact, it is actually much broader and is influencing Christianity to a significant degree. Grounded in a centuries-old mystical approach, this movement is powerful, yet highly deceptive, and it draws its energy from practices and experiences that are foreign to traditional evangelical Christianity. The path that the emerging church is taking is leading right into the arms of Roman Catholicism and ultimately to an interfaith perspective that has prophetically profound ramifications.

Roger Oakland is an author-lecturer and founder of Understand The Times International. His easy to understand teaching style communicates to people of all ages and backgrounds. Over the past twenty years he has lectured at numerous churches, conferences, universities and educational facilities in over 50 countries.Roger Oakland has authored and co-authored numerous books and produced audiotapes, videos and other publications that have been translated into several different languages worldwide.

Contents:

1
A New Kind of Church?
Reaching a Postmodern World
Breaking Away from Tradition
A Way That Seems Right
The Secret Message of the Emerging Church
Always Searching, Never Finding
The Scope

2
The Birth of the Emerging Church
Leadership Network
Peter Drucker and Mysticism
The Emerging Frontiers of Peter Drucker
A “Mega” Paradigm Shift
Rick Warren’s Tides of Change
Leonard Sweet’s “New Lights”
The Cosmic Christ Emerges
Shaping the Minds of the Youth

3
A “New” Faith for the 21st Century
The Process of Reimagining
Contextualizing the Bible
The Woman at the Well
Thinking “Out of the Box”
When the Word is Not Heard
4/Riding the Emerging Church Wave
Experience Over Doctrine
Experience-Driven Christianity
Ancient-Future Faith
The Impact of Imagery

5
Ancient-Future Worship
Mystics from the Past
Multi-Sensory Worship
The Labyrinth
Drumming Up “Jesus”
Old is “New” Again
“Roman” Catholic or Just Catholic?
A Catholic Perspective of the Church Fathers
Journeys Home

6
When West Meets East
Thomas Merton - God in Everybody?
Celebration of Discipline
Enamored by Mysticism
Spiritual Formation and Transformation
A New Age Christianity
From the New Age to Jesus Christ
“Christian” Yoga
Contemplative Prayer or Terror?

7
Monks, Mystics, and the Ancient Wisdom
The Sacred Way
The Alpha State
Noomas and Reiki
Coming to Christ Through Mysticism
Thin Places of “Oneness”
Spiritual Disciplines
A Third Jesus

8
The Second Coming of the Eucharistic Christ
Eucharistic Evangelization
Rekindling Amazement
The World’s Greatest Secret Revealed
Second Coming Catholic Style
The Eucharist and the Evangelical Church
Eucharistic Adoration and the Emerging Church
Experiencing the Eucharist
The Eucharistic Jesus is Mystical

9
The Kingdom of God on Earth
An Emergent View on the Future of Planet Earth
The Purpose Driven Inclusive Church
The Kingdom of God and a Man of Peace
Purpose Driven Ecumenism
Bible Prophecy on Trial
The Secret Message of Jesus
Christian Fundamentalists—“One of the Big Enemies”
A Utopian Kingdom and Global Healing?

10
The Undoing of Faith
Christian or Christ-Follower
“They Like Jesus But Not the Church”
Emergent Missiology
“Churchless” Christianity
The Inclusive Gospel
Bridging the Gap between Good and Evil

11
A Slaughterhouse Religion?
Precivilized Barbarity
False Advertising for God
“That God Does Not Exist”
Dying for the Sins of the World

12
A New Reformation?
Apocalyptic Millennialists
Resisters—“Leave or Die”
The Barbarian Way
Sexuality in the New Reformation
The Great Emergence

13
Or An End-Time Deception
Is Christianity the Reason the World Is In Trouble?
Community versus Christ
“The Sign of Thy Coming”
Emergent Reformation—What Should We Expect?
Endnotes
Index