Kalled2Preach stated,

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Has anyone here actually read McLaren's book or has everyone just read critiques about it?
I have read some of Mclaren’s books; A New Kind of Christian, Church in Emerging Culture: Five Perspectives (Leonard Sweet, Andy Crouch, Brian D. McLaren, Erwin Raphael McManus, Michael Horton, Frederica Matthewes-Green), and have just finished reading Dan Kimball’s book, Emerging Worship. I have read only part of A Generous Orthodoxy.

In effect the Emerging Church is the Reformation in reverse (The Reverse Reformation). McLaren and others in the Emerging movement, reject the doctrine of the Church. If you have read A Generous Orthodoxy you know he rejects Total Depravity and he is consistent with the theology of redemption and justification drawn from N.T. Wright and the New Perspective on Paul. He removes the emphasis from reconciliation, substitution and judgment to mere human acts. As Tim Challies states,

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But how can I not label as a heretic one who says the following:

He apologizes for his continued use of masculine pronouns to describe God. He proposes several solutions to this dilemma, including interchanging he and she or using the clumsy s/he. In the end he merely apologizes for the use of he, affirms that he considers God neither male nor female and tries to avoid using pronouns altogether. He goes on to say that the usage of the Father/Son imagery so prevalent in Scripture "contributes to the patriarchalism or chauvinism that has too often characterized Christianity."

That we have "misunderstood and misused Paul." He believes that traditional views of Paul have pitted him against Jesus so that we have "retained Jesus as Savior but promoted the apostle Paul to Lord and Teacher." He tells us that the result of today's Christianity is "a religion that Jesus might consider about as useful as many non-Christians consider it today."

In regards to Mary he expresses a realization that his Protestant faith has been impoverished "with its exlusively male focus." He explains how much we have missed, as Protestants, by failing to see the beauty of the incarnation through Mary.

That he rejects TULIP, all of the solas and biblical inerrancy, Further, he mentions the people who most understood what it meant to be biblical Christians as St. Francis, Mother Teresa and Billy Graham.
Add to this what McLaren wrote,

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How do "I" know the Bible is always right? And if "I" am sophisticated enough to realize that I know nothing of the Bible without my own involvement via interpretation, I’ll also ask how I know which school, method, or technique of biblical interpretation is right. What makes a "good" interpretation good? And if an appeal is made to a written standard (book, doctrinal statement, etc.) or to common sense or to "scholarly principles of interpretation," the same pesky "I" who liberated us from the authority of the church will ask, "Who sets the standard? Whose common sense? Which scholars and why? Don’t all these appeals to authorities and principles outside the Bible actually undermine the claim of ultimate biblical authority? Aren’t they just the new pope?
Thus, while the Reformers believed that man could know/understand the Bible, the postmodernist cannot see past the weaknesses of the one who studies it. While the Reformers were fully aware of the work of the Holy Spirit in guiding the Christian through the Scriptures, the other does not! De Waay writes,

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"The term "postmodern" has come along to describe the results of the rejection of both reason and Scripture. We are left floating in a sea of subjectivism." When we reject the idea of "true truth" or "total truth" we are left with nothing to rely on but mysticism - mystical experiences that can do for us experientially what Protestants have long believed that the Spirit, through Scripture, can and must do objectively.
One cannot submit himself to the teachings of the Emerging movement and still be considered Reformed. They reject the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3).

Kalled2preach get out of this NOW. It will only damage your faith. Spend some time at Tim Challies website. While I do not agree with everything here, he is up to date on much in the emerging church.

Reformed and Always Reforming,