Dave,
And I say unto you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it.
How else is the church to be built except by Christ as foundation and the propositional revelation of the words of Scripture in union with the Spirit as our guide?
As I see it there is no common ground between the NPP and Emergent church movement except both have used one of Satan's best tools by confusing or denying the intended interpretation of Scripture. It's and understatement to say that it would have been much better for all believers, for both heresies to have limited their church assaulting interpretive words to "yeah, yeah and nay, nay".
IMO, these heresies are very different in that the post-modern Emergents have denied the church's historic orthodox Christian Doctrine altogether, while the NPP people are simply continuing a deadly legalistic assault on the doctrine of justification by faith alone. In other words, Emergents have denied the perspicuity, sufficiency and the inspiration of Scripture, and the NPP camp (while claiming to honor it) misinterpret and legalize the Scripture itself.
With the Emergents, I think about the twelve tribes complaining in the wilderness about the insufficiency of God's manna from heaven. They wanted strawberries and whipped cream on top.
Strawberries and Whipped Cream
Who say to the seers, "Do not see", And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things; Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits. Get out of the way, turn aside from the path, Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us". (Isa 30:10,11)
With the NPP, I think about Paul's battle with the Judaizers nearly everywhere he went.
IMO, of the two heresies, the NPP camp is by far the most dangerous because of their much more subtle deceit.
Denny
Romans 3:22-24
