By James Fire
Scanning Mark Sandrette and his article, “Growing Pains”
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
As mentioned previously, proponents of the ECM seek to
dialogue and communicate with others within this movement (and with those of
all the world religions) and by mutual consensus, it would seem, seek to
discover spiritual wisdom in their ‘horizontal relationship’ rather than
seeking that wisdom which is from God above (JAMES 3:14-18).
We know as biblical Christians what the source of ‘worldly
wisdom’ is, and no doubt this source is integral to the very spirit of the
Emergent Church Movement.
