Is Tony Campolo a heretic?
I heard he is part of the Emerging Church movement. He’s also liberal in some social issues.
Some think so.
Campolo holds the distinction of being the only living evangelical leader to undergo a heresy trial. According to Christianity Today, in 1985, a group of Evangelical Free Church pastors in Illinois convinced Bill Bright to cancel Campolo’s appearance at Youth Congress ’85, the first major joint rally by Bright’s Campus Crusade and Youth for Christ. Specifically, they were upset that Campolo believed Christ was present in every person, Christian or not. “I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us,” he wrote in A Reasonable Faith, a 1983 book aimed at secularists. “I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person.”
They were also upset with two other sentences in the book: “Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving,” and “Jesus is God because he is fully human.” (“By human I mean a full expression of the image of God,” he later explained.) The pastors accused him of “semantic mysticism” and “spiritual adultery,” while Campolo said he was a victim of “a wave of religious McCarthyism.”
http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/000853.html
Campolo writes the following: “Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, “Why didn’t God do something? Where was God when all those people died?”‘
“Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad answers. One such answer is that somehow all suffering is a part of God’s great plan. In the midst of agonies, someone is likely to quote from the Bible, telling us that if we would just be patient, we eventually would see ‘all things work together for the good, for those who love God, and are called according to His purposes.’ (Romans 8:28)“
“Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. Kushner points out that omnipotence is a Greek philosophical concept, but it is not in his Bible.”
Just another reason that Tony Campolo is one of the leading heretics of our day. He is embraced by many in the Methodist, Lutheran, American Baptist, and other denominations, as well as, the Emergent Church movement. His liberal social-gospel drips with unbiblical theology that seems to be a mixture of dozens of heresies that have attacked the sufficiency of Scripture for twenty centuries.
http://fide-o.blogspot.com/2005/09/guess-who-thinks-god-is-weak.html
Warnings About the Emergent Church Movement with guest Pastor Ken Silva (Crosstalk America)
