Wow! Can you get any more world loving than a statement like the one for this conference?
“new perspectives from global influencers”
In other words how to bring more fallen worldly ideas into your “Christian Faith”
Here is a quote from their web site:
“Rethink is a convergence of thinkers, innovators and leaders from the Christian and global arenas.
We’re purposely gathering a group of speakers you wouldn’t necessarily expect to hear at a Christian conference. Our aim is to be immersed in the latest thoughts and perspectives of these respected cultural icons to tap into what’s happening in our world today and to grapple with how we respond.What have these top influencers been thinking about in the last year? What keeps them up at night? What are they rethinking? And how does it all apply to you – your work, your ministry, your life? Find out at Rethink.” Did you see the word “convergence underlined? That is the big buzz word in our Post-Modern world. This word is being used in Technology, Religion, Materialist Science. Geo-Politics, commerce etc etc.
The main thrust behind it is that the world is shrinking, i.e. technology is making the world smaller by bringing cultures and countries closer to each other. information can travel the globe at nearly the speed of light via the fiber optic networks that underpin the World Wide Web. Additionally our society as it has become more electronically controlled is now switching all its control and management mechanisms onto the interent, TCP IP which the the network protocol that is used to transfer information on the World Wide Web is the network protocol increasingly being used by all spheres of society to electronically manage their information, and since the World Wide Web is based on the TCP IP protocol, the next step is to integrate all computer networks into the World Wide Web, hence the buzzword: CONVERGENCE. Everything is converng onto the World Wide Web.
And a funny thing about this convergence, its ideology has become a philosophy that has spread to all spheres of society even religion. No longer are we as Christians supposed to be in the world but not of it. But we are through the philosophy of convergence supposed to bring together what are considered to be the best of all the spheres of “the world” including influences from other religion’s in order to “enhance” our Christian Life.
We are most definitely in the end times when we see virtually all of our major “Christian Leaders” either embracing the world to incorporate their non-Christian ideology into Christianity to in their words “enhance” it , but also through leaders like John Hagee, Rick Warren, TD Jakes, Joel Osteen and others, attempt to remove the offence of the Cross to placate the non-Christian world.
What this actually is, is nothing more than the spirit of Anti-Christ.
Check out their web site by clicking on the word rethink in bold to the right and you will see some very recognizable names: rethink
It’s not quite that trendy or stylish, but I Corinthians 2 is an appropriate response.
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