I should follow who?

I have been doing a research type of study on the "emerging church". All the things I have found have been a little startling to me. As with most things, on the surface it all sounds sort of cool, cutting edge as far as the church goes and really reaches out to the younger generation. I began to dig a little by contacting an acquaintance friend of mine that makes his living by studying up on these sorts of things. He in turn directed me to a smart and nice lady who sent me a wealth of articles to read on this subject. So I spent some time looking around and reading and pondering with each new revelation of this Emerging church thing, why do they do it like this? Why do they leave that out? Oh my word, they have watered down the very thing we cling to of Scripture "The Gospel". One guy, I like to call him the daddy of the movement in USA at least, says that salvation by faith through grace is only "one facet" of reaching God. HUH????!!!! Are you serious? This guy has been named one of the most moving speakers, one of the most prominent evangelicals in this period of time. How can he be called this when he is leading people astray? I honed in on something these guys in this movement call "Labyrinth Prayer" and I did a little research on it. The original meaning comes from the Greeks, Greek Mythology no less. On their original drawing the Labyrinth has many starting points and they all lead to the center. They hold in this thought that it does not matter what spiritual path you take as long as it leads you back to the center. That troubles me greatly because as I studied on this subject I realized that the Emerging church is growing like crazy. The daddy of the movement has a church of his on that has numbers up in the thousands; while another Pastor who holds to these beliefs in Chicago has a church that has numbers up above 11,000 people. Folks, this thing is catching on and I can tell you why, it's because they give the people what they want. People have the desire to believe in something bigger then them as long as it does not dictate how they should direct their lives and this movement offers this for them. They don't hold to any doctrine so as to not offend anyone, they don't hold any absolutes so as to not offend anyone. They don't believe only in the blood of Christ as atonement for our sins because their could be someone out their that is offended by this. They call the church of today, the conservative theologically and doctrinally sound Churches out of touch, a dying breed. This hits me heavy on the heart for many reasons, 1. they are leading so many people down a path that Paul specifically warns us to be cautious about in Colossians 2:8 (See to it that no one takes you captive through (B)philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the (C)elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. )
2. Apparently many many people in the world today don't read the Bible for themselves. They don't study or research sermons to see if the Preacher is actually teaching truth. They simply take him at his word and move on to mimic how he tells them they should live and think.
3. They are mixing many different religious beliefs into Christianity in order to make it watered down, all in the name of having a better "experience" with God. They bring in the teachings of the Hindu way, of Greek Mythology, of Buddhism, and Mysticism and many more and they mix different beliefs with Christianity.
4. After creating a religion of their on based of human secular man, they send people out to have a "positive" influence in the communities, to offset the things these traditional conservative out dated Christians have been teaching all these years.
Just this week, the senate majority leader Harry Reid invited a Hindu priest to offer the opening prayer for the senate. Guys this should freak us born again believers out beyond our normal walls of comfort. The USA is falling away from God at an alarming rate. Sure there are still folks coming to know Christ and yes if a poll was taken today across the USA there would be over half the population to say they are Christians. But what sort of "Christian" are they? Are they biblically based and grounded? Do they have the correct Doctrine of thought based off what God says and not man? Is there Theology accurate according to the word of God and not according to man?
Does it bother any of you that at any given time anyone of these folks could have a major impact in your child's life? They could deceive them to follow a path that leads to destruction? A Path that follows a God or many versions of a God but not the God of Abraham, not the God of Isaac or the Father of Jesus? Does it both any of us that anyone of these folks could potentially be the one to usher in the reign of the Antichrist or perhaps set the ground for the Antichrist to come in? Does it bother any of us that all these people, all these different beliefs and religions are victims of true born again Christianity? At least according to the world, the government and others, Christians are the worse thing to ever happen to man kind.

I encourage you to study up on the emerging church, perhaps you are on that says, that will never make it in Birmingham. Can I tell you that their is already at the very least 1 church in Birmingham that if not fully aligns itself with this sort of emerging church beliefs it is very close to doing so. The "basement" is a gathering, now I have to say, from my ignorance I can only say that this gathering "freaks" me out. They don't call themselves a church and the main speaker calls himself an evangelist, but I tell you from speaking to people, if he is an evangelist, he is one that does not use the word of God much at all. According to some that I trust, he will simply sit up on stage and give you a warm and positive life experience to apply to your life not out of the Bible but out of his on life and send you on your merry way. This gathering started about 4 years ago and as of today they have upwards towards 4000 people. What if all these people decide that traditional or contemporary church is just to boring and give it up for this life experience at the basement? What are they being fed? Not the word of God.
Remember Colossians 2:8 and pray daily that God will help you to discern when the evil one is trying to lead you astray with his false philosophy and doctrine..