Question of the day ??
What is your understanding of the Emergent Church?
posted by Greg Hazelrig @ 8:06 AM
5 comments
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5 Comments:
I don't get it.
Some good ideas, like speaking the gospel cross-culturally and using inventives forms of worship.
Otherwise, it's a passing fad. Because its epistemology is comparable to Unitarianism, most emergent adherents will get bored and wander off, or join New Age movements.
Because if this God stuff doesn't really matter, why bother getting up on Sunday morning and going to church?
I agree with John, I have some concerns about the grounding of it in orthodoxy, but I think the ideas of relevance and meaning are sorely lacking from many of our churches.
The desire to understand a culture to best reach it isn't necessarily bad. The problem is that the Emergent leaders have a distorted worldview with respect to truth, the Bible and a couple other critical areas. They generally follow the postmodern "truth is relative" philosophy, which leads to all kinds of bad thinking.
Here are a couple good sites if you want to know more:
http://www.thinkerup.blogspot.com/
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/
my understanding is that people don't understand the emerging church. this isn't some new form of denom. it's a way of seeing a community of church function in worship, study, mission, etc. the emerging church is not a thing, but it's a conversation, a same language to help bring people together who are trying to work through the way church is to how it can be.
that's my personal understanding, i can't speak for everyone. i don't care for prior noted websites they do more hate than good critique, which i can say the emerging church is due it's critique. i'd check out emergent-us.typepad.com if someone wants to see what they are into, as well as generous orthodoxy think tank blog.
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