Here is an excellent interview with Dr. John MacArthur from Answers Magazine. He sums up very succinctly the emerging chaos [with the church in general today].

“This is not an intellectual movement. This is not a movement that has discovered evidence that overturns inspiration, evidence that overturns in errancy or authority. This is a movement born of people who do not want to accept the clarity of Scripture,” says MacArthur.

This kind of thinking is very convenient, he explains. If God’s Word is not clear, then we’re not responsible to follow it.

“It allows them not to take a position on homosexuality, premarital sex, or anything, besides ‘Let’s light some candles and incense, think good thoughts about Jesus, and give to the poor,’” he observes.

But as MacArthur reminds readers in his book’s introduction, “To claim that the Bible is not sufficiently clear is to assault God’s own wisdom and integrity.”

Emerging churches are an informal network of worldwide Christian communities who believe God’s way for today’s generation is to focus more on relationships and emerging ideas than hard-and-fast truths and traditional statements of faith. They favor dialogs over doctrine and are filled with people who say traditional church no longer works for them. Inside their walls, you’ll typically find couches in place of pews, conversation instead of preaching,[preachers who want to preach but not to be preached to; we need to follow God, before God will use us to lead], compromise in place of convictions, and questions in place of truth.

When we give gifts to our loved ones, isn't it because we "know" their likes and dislikes, based on our experience with them.By the things they do and say? But also by the things they never had to. Because it's instinctive.

So too God's character and values can be "known" to us by the things He has done [scriptures - external evidence], He continues to do [our experiences- both tangible & intangible], and especially the things He never said. Sometimes, the things that we don't do, says more than what we do say! God wants us to know Him well enough to know that we don't even need to ask. Because we know, that we know that we do KNOW. We need to study the Word to know the character of God and knowing His character will help to eliminate falsehood and heighten integrity to pure uncompromising truths about His Word. However, we will never see plainly if we have ulterior motives. If it gets too pricey or risky or at the cost of popularity to us. Then being unsure is our best response. Yet in such situations God will not respond if "He knows we know what His response would most naturally be! With God silence is Not consent... it's an opportunity for us to pick sense out of non-sense".

MacArthur explains,“They are saying, in effect, that God may have spoken, but He mumbled, and we’re not really sure what He said. Saying that Scripture is not clear is just another way to undermine biblical authority.