Battles from "Within"

Just yesterday, having just finished listening to Mark Driscoll's comments on the Emergent crowd at Convergent (if you haven't heard it and are interested, listen here.), I mentioned to Myrriah that our future in ministry will involve undoing a lot of the damage that the Emergent folks have done and are doing. Essentially my concern is that these are people claiming to be believers yet consistently they separate themselves from any sense of orthodoxy. My fear is the confusion that they are causing to people that we are called to shepherd.

This afternoon a book arrived at our home by the title of Pierced for Our Transgressions. The book is a defense of a very hot theological topic right now, the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement, and will arrive in the US this fall to much fanfare I have no doubt (Only available in the UK right now, so unless you want to pay too much, wait until November).  I mention it to you because these guys share a concern very similar to mine though theirs is specific to their topic:

"...it is no surprise that the Bible's teaching should be criticized this way, for foundational truths of the Christian faith always come under attack from time to time...The more disturbing thing is that some of the more recent critics of penal substitution regard themselves as evangelicals, and claim to be committed to the authority of Scripture." -Jaffrey, Ovey, and Sach, Pierced for Our Transgressions, 24-5.