Interesting to see this thread. I haven't been here in a while. I've been "battling" this issue for almost 2 years now at my current church. Thankfully (and maybe due to prayers from this forum) my husband sees the error of Brian McLaren after reading for himself.
I'm glad to see that Joe has read this stuff for himself. I appreciate his comments. I think when critics come out to say things against these false teachers it is definately more crediable to say that the sources have been looked at. Well I have done way more than my share of reading of McLaren and others. I'm done reading these authors because my brain and spirit just can't take anymore. Well we are done with our talks with our pastors and I even went in front of our elder board (my husband was there because he's one of the elders) about this whole issue. Like Kalled2Preach, our sr. pastor won't throw McLaren out the window, but sees something valuable in some of the stuff he's addressing. And it's even worse with our associate - he's actually used McLaren with the sr. high kids and he's still promoting Donald Miller's "Blue Like Jazz" at our youth's website. But it's not just McLaren, its Rob Bell too and others. Our sr. pastor said Rob Bell (who pastors Mars Hill CHurch in Michigan - a very large emergent church) has got some of the best preaching and exegesis for today! Well that was enough for me right there with that statement. And out of curiousity I've even gone to Rob Bell's church site and listened to a couple of his sermons for myself. But considering he's endorsed at least one of McLaren's books that I know of, that's a big problem for me.
Kalled I don't mean any disrespect to you, but I just can't see how you see any value in McLaren. Surely there is somebody out there from Christian Orthodoxy that's addressed postmodernity and reaching today's generation. Why turn to McLaren for any answers (which he's very, very short on clarity). McLaren is definately not coming from this boat (orthodoxy). And McLaren is running around with some very problemsome folks - Steve Chalke (McLaren's endorsed his book), Alan Jones, McLaren says that NT Wright has been very influential in his writings, etc. And I don't even have a "Reformed" background and I see this, I'm just a Christian who knows the Word and I can clearly see (and my husband too) that McLaren is a false teacher. He's got another book coming out in the Spring too - the title is "The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that could Change Everthing". Hmmm.....what's this one going to say?

We are finally leaving our church and will be gone by Christmas. My husband let the cat out of the bag just last week. I cannot stay in a church where the leaders are so blinded by the error of this man and other authors and things that have crept in our church and not questioned enough (except by me). There are about 4 churches that I'd like to visit. Because of my wonderful homeschooling community that I'm in I've found out about the different churches around here. Hopefully my husband and I will be in agreement where we go.