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A quick summary of emergent Christianity… via
Dispatch 1: Emergents practice a generous orthodoxy that appreciates the contributions of all Christian movements.
Dispatch 2: Emergents reject the politics & theologies of left versus right — they anticipate a more complex reality.
Dispatch 3: The gospel is like lava: no matter how much crust has formed over it, [...]
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Nine practices of the emerging church
A couple weeks back I shared a series of posts on on what I saw as the defining characteristics of the emerging Christian movement.
And Wednesday, I found that Urban Theologian (HT @knightopia) shared nine practices of the emerging church, according to Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger in their book “Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep [...]
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What is emergent? Trinitarian based values
Read Part 3 :: What is emergent? Missional
From what I’ve seen of the emerging conversation, Trinitarian based values aren’t something that come up on a daily basis, but a number of folks are pointed to it as one of the great strengths of the movement. In fact, I can’t think of it being mentioned in [...]
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What is emergent? Missional
Read Part 2 :: What is emergent? Centered set
While there seem to be countless folks in the Church who are more than happy to avoid being labeled emergent, the exact opposite seems to be true for the term missional. More and more folks are rushing to use the term to define their ministries. Some have [...]
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What is emergent? Centered set
Read Part 1: What is emergent? Generous Orthodoxy
I remember somewhere along the way in school, we studied bounded sets and centered sets. I couldn’t tell you how all the formulas worked, but I remember it was a nice change from the other algebra and/or geometry we were doing at that time.
I had all but [...]
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What is emergent? A generous orthodoxy
Read the introduction: What is emergent?
“I offer this book with the heartiest sentiments to all the jolly people who hate what I write, and regard it (very justly, for all I know), as a piece of poor clowning or a single tiresome joke.” – G.K. Chesterson (Orthodoxy (Moody Classics))
I came into the emergent conversation probably [...]
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What is emergent?
There continues to be a great discussion across the Interwebs as folks try to nail-down exactly what it means to be “emergent.”
Folks are coming into the conversation from all different places in their lives, as well as at different points in the emerging conversation.
Some people have been discussing emerging Christianity since the 1960’s (or before); [...]
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The Great Disappointment
Nicholas Fiedler (of Nick and Josh Podcast fame) shared an open, honest reflection on his disappointment with Emergent on his blog.
He mentions later in the comments that perhaps after spending 15 months abroad, he’s disappointed to see the conversation hasn’t moved anywhere from when he left. Understood.
Here are my comments:
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Rethinking church
Neil Cole writes ::
We must transition from seeing church as a once-a-week worship event to an ongoing spiritual family on mission together. Then people will see church as something worth giving your life for. Honestly, people need one another more then they need another inspiring message. You would be surprised what people will do for [...]
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Hitler does emergent
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Some of you might have no clue what they’re talking about here. So as a brief background, Tony Jones recently stepped down as the National Coordinator for Emergent Village. After he stepped down, Josh Case (now part of the Nick and Josh Podcast) posted a video suggesting that as part of the idea and [...]
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