In this episode of Discerning the Drift, Addie K. Miller exposes how the emergent postmodern movement has radically redefined biblical missions into what is now called missiology or missional living. Drawing heavily from Roger Oakland’s Lighthouse Trails booklet The New Missiology: Doing Missions Without the Gospel, Addie explains how the biblical mandate to proclaim repentance, salvation, and the exclusivity of Jesus Christ has been replaced with social action, cultural accommodation, and religious inclusivism.
The episode examines how influential leaders such as Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, Donald Miller, and others promote the idea that people can remain within Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, or other religions while merely “adding Jesus” to their spiritual framework. Addie demonstrates how this teaching mirrors ancient pagan syncretism, denies the necessity of repentance, and empties the cross of its saving power.
Listeners are warned that this new missiology does not produce converts—it produces compromise. By prioritizing pragmatism, results, and cultural sensitivity over truth, the emergent model comforts people in this life while withholding the only message that can save them for eternity. This episode is a clear call to return to biblical missions rooted in the full gospel of Jesus Christ, even when that message is unpopular or costly.
Dive deep into scripture with Addie as current events, teachings in the modern church, testimonies, trends, important biblical teachings, and the sweeping drift away from the basic truths in the Bible across the modern-day Church are all brought to light to be tested only against the infallible, un-changing, Word of God on Discerning the Drift.
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