Leaders call 'Emerging Church Movement' a threat to Gospel

A recently developed way of envisioning church known as the "Emerging Church Movement" deals carelessly with Scripture and compromises the Gospel, according to a prominent evangelical scholar and a Southern Baptist seminary president.

But Brian McLaren, one of the movement's leaders, told Baptist Press that such criticisms are unfounded and that the Emerging Church Movement is "seeking to be more faithful to Christ" in the current postmodern cultural context.

Naturally there is a wave of reaction in the blogosphere, so here are a few places to start: Andrew Jones has a response, and there is a discussion in the comments; more discussion can be found here...