I registered Oct 14, 2009 to see the Great Emergence conference here in Winnipeg Oct 31, 2009 to see in person Phyllis Tickle. I know many truly are not informed with her false teachings of God being our Mother and that she endorses other faiths, that of universalism beliefs. I plan to take notes and if possible ask some key questions. Read for yourself and click link at bottom to listen to it.

Phyllis Tickle is calling the Emergent Church a new move of God, that like of the Reformation, and that is simply rubbish and is leading many people astray. People like Brian Mclaren, Rob Bell, Doug Pagitt, Tony Jones, and others are on the same page with her, endorsing her, and each of them endorsing each other. Each of them teach false things contrary to the Gospel message, the return of Christ, the authority of Scripture, and even don’t speak against immoral lifestyles. (i.e. homosexuality)

Phyllis Tickle says: "It’s the beginning of our understanding that God is both male and female…God is both Father and Mother…God is both man and woman, if you will, in a sort of divine way. It’s the beginning of our understanding, first of all, that there’s more than one thing under the name of God; and that it is both male and female." (from the link I provided below where she spoke at Rob Bell's assembly May 2009)

Brian Mclaren says of Jesus second coming in wrath is false, immoral, ignorant, and dangerous: "The phrase “the Second Coming of Christ” never actually appears in the Bible. Whether or not the doctrine to which the phrase refers deserves rethinking, a popular abuse of it certainly needs to be named and rejected. If we believe that Jesus came in peace the first time, but that wasn’t his “real” and decisive coming – it was just a kind of warm-up for the real thing – then we leave the door to envisioning a second coming that will be characterized by violence, killing, domination, and eternal torture. This vision reflects a deconversion, a return to trust in the power of Pilate, not the unarmed truth that stood before Pilate, refusing to fight. This eschatological understanding of a violent second coming leads us to believe (as we’ve said before) that in the end, even God finds it impossible to fix the world apart from violence and coercion; no one should be surprised when those shaped by this theology behave accordingly.

If we remain charmed by this kind of eschatology, we will be forced to see the nonviolence of the Jesus of the Gospels as a kind of strategic fake – out, like a feigned retreat in war, to be followed up by crushing a blow of so – called redemptive violence in the end. The gentle Jesus of the first coming becomes a kind of trick Jesus, a fake – me – out Messiah, to be replaced by the true jihadist Jesus of a violent second coming.

This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse, are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.”" (Everything Must Change, p. 144)

Are these teachers you want to endorse? Do you see a shift in Christianity becoming more and more liberal and having tickling ears theology?

For more information to read and even listen to yourself check out http://apprising.org/2009/06/a-treasure-we-don’t-understand—phyllis-tickle-at-mars-hill-bible-church/ to read transcript of her teaching that God is not only Father but also our Mother, both male and female. Towards the bottom of this transcript you can click the link to listen to this where she was preaching at Rob Bell's assembly May 2009.

Here are more links regarding her coming to Winnipeg and concerning his beliefs and associations.

1. •Phyllis Tickle on the Great Emergence being a new reformation
   

http://www.emergingspirit.ca/phyllis_tickle_on_the_great_emergence_0

1. •Phyllis Tickle video from youtube on the Great Emergence
   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY83MF2HZcU

1. •Phyllis Tickle coming to Winnipeg October 31, 2009
   

http://www.faithforum.ca/GE/greatemergence.html

1. •Phyllis Tickle information with her teaching God is both Father and Mother, male and female, and some really crazy stuff on the eucharist feeding the God within you???
   

http://.apprising.org/2009/06/a-treasure-we-don’t-understand—phyllis-tickle-at-mars-hill-bible-church/

1. •Phyllis Tickle Beliefs, Associations, and Experiences
   

http://www.shorter.edu/academics/celebrate_shorter.htm

1. •Phyllis Tickle involved and supporting all faiths together
   

http://www.nationalcathedral.org/about/mission.shtml

1. •Phyllis Tickle being endorsed and sponsored by many various ministries and denominations for the Great Emergence conference in Winnipeg
   

http://www.faithforum.ca/GE/Sponsorshiplistlinks.html

1. •Phyllis Tickle and the Emergent Church being promoted and endorsed by Godtalk radio show through classes
   

http://www.godtalkradioshow.com/docs/promo_EmergingChurchOne.pdf

Be aware of what is going on and don't be deceived but be informed and proclaim the truth of God’s Word:  “3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.   4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Jude 1:3-4 NASB)

Kelly Powers

P.S.  As I gather new information I will update this for those who are interested and concerned for what is going on and coming to Winnipeg.  Feel open to share comments, information, things relevant for what is going on so that pastors, leaders, the body of Christ can be properly informed on what is going on. 

If you are going, share your comments and why it matters to you

For those of out there who want to make a difference for the truth of the Gospel message and how we can work together in our area, share who you are and what we can do together to be sheep protecters against the many heresies influencing the body of Christ and giving false hope to non Christians.