The "missional" and "relevant" excuse to embrace worldly principles and then attempt to make them "Christian" continues. The emerging church has already swallowed up the new evangelical American Christian Church and no matter how many times they try and tell us it is a rebirth of "authentic" Christianity, it quite simply couldn’t be further from it.

The ancient Church took Biblical mandates such as this very seriously–"Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul" (1 Peter 2:11). In this piece Ingrid Schlueter documents more pending disaster at Slice of Laodicea when she points out:

Well, it was just a matter of time until some evangelical publisher figured out there was gold in pushing High School Musical as deep spiritual material for young girls. Just in time for the release of High School Musical 2 on the Disney Channel comes a book from Bethany House to teach girls spiritual truths from the movie. The author especially likes the song lyrics on the show.

*Gen. Ed. note* While this pathetic pabulum–“Anything it takes to climb, The ladder of success…”–is unquestionably consistent the teaching of man-loving new evangelicals like Erwin McManus and Joel Osteen, it is actually the polar opposite of the Character of Christ Jesus the Lord of Glory in Philippians 2.

Let me put this in Hollywood entertainment terms to better enable these "Christian" posers to grasp it. The American Christian Church is all but dead spiritually, so as one of your movie "gods" was famous for saying: "Say goodnight Gracie."