Mark Driscoll writes alligator ii the mutation dvd that Ravi Zacharias is concerned that the emerging church is a breeding ground for heresy.

It will be interesting to see what he has to say.

I would fairly confidently say that both this and the next generation of Christians are nowhere near as biblically literate as their parents and definitely run that risk.

It is a concern of mine that so may people who claim to be Christians simply don’t read and don’t know the what the Bible says about stuff. If we don’t know what it says then we are at risk of inventing what we think it says.

If we can arrive at heresy after reading the Bible, then I’d say we’d have a much better chance of getting there with no knowledge of it!

However this biblical illiteracy is hardly to be confined to one branch of the church. I’d say its pretty much normal in the church as a whole. While I’d hardly claim to be a biblical scholar, I am now grateful for the degree to which I was grounded in the Bible even if I do see parts of it a little differently to what I used to. (At least i know those parts exist!)

It will be interesting to see what Zacharias writes on this. While we do need to hold to orthodoxy, we also need people prepared to ask tough questions and diverge from the main track and explore if we are to learn new things.

Maybe we need to have our cake and eat it…