Curt Cook, the Associate Pastor of James River Assembly, shared a good word yesterday of how Jesus warned against false prophets and false doctrine in the church. He encouraged everyone to look to the Word and pray for guidance, and to live our lives full on for Jesus yet be aware of spiritual attacks from not only those outside our Christian circles but within as well.

I was particularly interested in a great example Pastor Curt brought up, and he basically denounced the Emergent church movement that has been sweeping America lately. He (correctly) called it a postmodern, relativist movement with no absolutes to stand on. You can hear the message below, and his warning against the Emergent church is about 1/3 of the way through.

The Emergent church reference in yesterday’s service eerily reminded me of a post I wrote roughly a month or two ago as a rebuke to postmodernist Christians. Only his points were more thought out where mine were an amalgamation of thoughts stemming from righteous frustration against phony “Christian” garbage.

Pastor Curt didn’t just denounce the Emergent church though, as he only used it as an example in his sermon in which the broader message was to spiritually beware of Satan trying to undermine one’s faith. He strongly encouraged everyone to respect the inerrancy of Scripture and its truth over building relationships…building relationships and community is necessary, but if truth and absolutes aren’t a higher priority then there is no basis for any relationship to stand on.

I thoroughly enjoyed the entire duration of the message and I will provide an embedded player for it below.

Also in my blogroll I have added a link to Pastor John Lindell’s new blog. He’s WordPressin’ it too!