{"id":1021,"date":"2009-07-09T01:21:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:28:49","slug":"individual-salvation-rejected-by-new-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/individual-salvation-rejected-by-new-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Salvation Rejected by &#8220;New Spirituality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/index.php?p=1556&amp;more=1&amp;c=1\"><strong>Larry DeBruyn\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/index.php?p=1556&amp;more=1&amp;c=1\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/strong><strong>LTRP Note:<\/strong> The following comments made by Larry DeBruyn help to point out the emerging church teaching that God is more concerned about (and desirous of) community or cultural salvation as opposed to individual salvation. This is a classic earmark of emerging\/contemplative spirituality. This is the message conveyed in books such as <em>Death by Church<\/em> by Mike Erre and <em>An Emergent Manifesto of Hope <\/em>by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Saved, One-by-One&#8221;<br \/>\nby Larry DeBruyn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the Episcopal Churches General Conference recently held in Anaheim, California, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, opened the conference with a stunning statement saying, &#8220;the great Western heresy&#8221; is &#8220;we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God.&#8221; According to the bishop-ess, &#8220;That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy.&#8221; Say what . . . ?<\/p>\n<p>The third chapter of John records Jesus&#8217; encounter with Nicodemus who by himself came to Jesus at night (John 3:1-14). John is clear on this. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090723065758\/http:\/\/www.sliceoflaodicea.com:80\/false-teaching\/saved-one-by-one\">Click here to read the rest. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090901034519\/http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com:80\/blog\/index.php?p=1491&amp;more=1&amp;c=1\">Death by Church review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090915225028\/http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com:80\/blog\/index.php?p=627&amp;more=1&amp;c=1\">An Emergent Manifesto of Hope review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Larry DeBruyn\u00a0 LTRP Note:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-new-spirituality","wpcat-63-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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