Mere Christianity

I just got back from Monday church, a little perplexed. The main McLean Bible Church pastor was speaking on like the founding principles of the church, and was saying some things that had a couple of us sitting uneasy. He was confronting the "emergent church", claiming that he believes that McLean Bible Church is part of a "growing minority" of churches that are sticking to historical doctrine and "true" Christianity.

Now, I'll be the first to admit that "in the end time, there will be false prophets" that will distort Christianity to justify their twisted beliefs. But there seems to be something so wrong about his vehement attacks on this "emergent church." I still can't quite wrap my mind about what I found so troubling about it.

Listen for yourself (audio on the bottom right, might take a day or so for them to load it up): http://www.frontlinearlington.com/

So on the metro ride home, I took out C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity," which I am currently reading. And this ending to one of the chapters seemed to make sense.
"I feel a strong desire to tell you, and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me, which one of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors into the world into pairs -- pairs of opposites. And he always encourages us to spend a lot of time thinking which is the worse. You see why, of course? He relies on your extra dislike of the one error to draw you gradually into the opposite one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through between both errors."

-A house divided cannot stand....