From Which Well Are You Drinking? Exposing the Dangers in the Emerging Church Movement

by David Winscott, Chuck Smith (Foreword)

What is so alarming about the emerging church movement? Why is this movement dangerous? These questions are addressed. This book looks at the main contributors to the emerging church movement; specifically to identify and briefly comment on the academic and philosophical wells that these pastors have been drinking from in order to construct their “emerging” belief system, paradigm and rules.The landscape of unbiblical, extra-biblical, and anti-biblical thought and practice in the church of the 21st century has its roots in virtually hundreds of years wherein divinity students, future pastors, and seminary professors drank deeply at polluted wells of academic knowledge. When church pastors and leaders look to secular, humanistic, relativistic philosophy and corrupted theology for their belief systems, paradigms and rules of reality, then distortions and erroneous teachings will always follow. Ultimately the seeds of a “different gospel” are sown and cultivated. With the emerging church movement the 21st century church has significantly strayed.The stage is set when the whole counsel of God (every verse, chapter and book starting with Genesis and moving in order through all sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments) is not consecutively and systematically taught by the local church’s pastor-teacher. The scene is set when the pastor-teacher offers topical messages from randomly selected texts while simultaneously ignoring vast portions and even books of the Bible. History confirms that it was just a matter of time until humanistic, secular, and relativistic philosophy would spill into and pollute the study of the Bible. This book is a brief introduction and overview of this movement with helpful explanations and theological and philosophical definitions. “The serious issues arising from the “Emerging Church” movement are troubling to our pastors and churches. David Winscott, who is active in our church, has helped us to grasp these urgent concerns by writing, From Which Well Are You Drinking? Pastors, teachers and serious students of the Bible will want to read this so that they can understand the inherent dangers of this movement that undermines the sufficiency of the Word of God and the sufficiency of the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit in proclaiming the Gospel of the Grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”Chuck Smith, Senior PastorCalvary ChapelCosta Mesa, CA

45 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 11, 2011