Re: Emerging vs. Emergent Churches: Clearing up the Confusion
| Posted On: 03/13/07 08:28:39 AM |
Age 57, TX |
I appreciate the clarifications you have offered. It has helped me, tremendously, in my understanding or, lack there of. I hear, almost daily, conflicting reports about these churches and now, it appears that the conflict has come about because of the similarity of their names. I'm starting a new "evangelical" church and most certainly won't call it by either of the names in your article.
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Re: Emerging vs. Emergent Churches: Clearing up the Confusion
| Posted On: 03/13/07 08:16:27 AM |
Age 57, AR |
We have done the Purpose Driven study, the salvation by Multiplication program, the Faith program, and more, but now we are in the coveted, much loved, highly valued, not to mention necessary, Beth Moore study. I feel that if I don't participate in this, I am being stubborn, or am a trouble maker. It's probably just my imagination that those who are doing the study really think that. Still, I wish we could do 'just church'. We don't need anyone other than God, by his Holy Spirit, and from the word, to lead us in our walk with Him. We have many female Christian teachers who are well versed in the word, and are gifted teachers, who could expound the word to us very well. I think people just get bored and want something new, OR, just maybe they want to fit in with the other churches. It's like keeping up with the Joneses. That is so wrong. As far as emergent, I think it kind of creeps in, and if we aren't watchful for it, we'll wake up one day and find that we are right in the middle of it. How do we nip it in the bud?
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- Re: Re: Emerging vs. Emergent Churches: Clearing up the Confusion
| Posted On: 03/13/07 03:55:11 PM | | Age 21, MN |
to all those who demonize the emergent Church, I challenge you to attend one for a few weeks. If someone is going to make proclamations like "how to we snuff it out?" then I hope they've experienced in enough first-hand to know what exactly it is their against.
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| Posted On: 03/13/07 07:36:15 PM | | Age 28, TX |
You think that, if only we attend an Emergent church, we'll suddenly stop noticing the vain philosophies and rank heresies of the movement's leadership? What, are they handing out little pills?
Seriously, neighbor, I speak for myself in this, but I've read enough of the learned foolishness of McLaren, Campolo, and others (and dissected it publicly, and made it obvious that they have no clue what they're talking about) to know that I want no fellowship with them. It's hard to be impressed with someone's flashy vocabulary when you know better than they do what the words actually mean.
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Great Article
| Posted On: 03/12/07 08:57:52 PM |
Age 19, MN |
Jason, thanks so much for clearing up the emergent church vs. emerging church mix-up. This is good to know and I appreciate your helpful insight for churches that identify themselves as "emerging" (not "Emergent") probably should drop that label to avoid unnecessary confusion (plus possible unnecessary divisions). The problem is that anti-Christian ideas are hijacking the word "evangelical" and "emergent" while "fundamentalist" leaves a bad taste in people's mouth typically in today's culture. By the way (as a thought for every Christian who reads this post), what if Christian leaders and representatives from all over the world came together to discuss this, like what Constatine did for the Nicene Creed for the Arian Constroversy? I mean, maybe it will be helpful to confront the issue. I don't know, it's a thought that maybe we should think about. Anyway, have a great day and God Bless!
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Re: Emerging vs. Emergent Churches: Clearing up the Confusion
| Posted On: 03/12/07 03:39:51 PM |
Age 33, WA |
Thank you for this helpful article. I appreciate the information as well as the gentle tone in which it is presented. I think we need to carefully examine the teachings of churches and minstries, but also that we need to keep a tone of civility and love in our discourse. Thanks for doing a great job of both!
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| Posted On: 03/13/07 04:06:07 PM | | Age 21, MN |
I so agree!!! --
Also, I think it's very important to look into "Emergent Churches" on a church-by-church basis. I've attended quite a few churches (Mars Hill, MI; Mars Hill, WA (via podcast); Woodland Hills, MN) people label as emergent, but have a very conservative theological foundation. They believe in the absolute authority of scripture, they just question fundamental views that don't have conspicuous scriptural backing. It's like Luther, liberally reforming against the conservative Catholic biblical understandings. Luther shed off traditional teachings, but still based everything on scripture... likewise, a lot of "emerging" AND "emergent" churches are doing the same thing. Now, I'm not supporting every Church, because some of them are compromising clear biblical teaching to try to conform to culture. --- Ryan
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