April 18, 2007
The BBC put this together, brilliant, bloody brilliant 
Sisters and brothers, what do you say. How can the church affirm the goodness of age in a culture that only markets eternal youth?
As the Brits’ would say, “Lets not stitch’em up” when God has more glory and purpose than they or us can imagine…
April 11, 2007
This post was originally posted at my personal blog at Sets N Service, I’m posting it here to get some feedback and see how close or how far off some of you consider my thesis to be…I’m sure it needs work and a good deal of nuance.
WARNING THIS POST WILL MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE, BUT I HOPE THE MESSAGE WILL HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE EMERGING CHURCHES AND YOURSELF IN A MORE HUMBLE AND INTERDEPENDENT LIGHT! Please realize that there is a conscious lack of nuance in this thesis, but I’m hoping that it might cause some new questions to develop in an area few have looked into. If I’m wrong please offer me correction…
Like the New Perspective the Emerging Churches are quickly becoming a dividing line issue for many in the Church today. And like the New Perspective to be sympathetic or nuanced about your opinion on the issue is to open the door to suspicion and uneasiness, to doubt of ones own orthodoxy by others. Fears have been raised about the newest kids on the block, and as Traditional Churches watch more and more of their 20′s and 30′s exit their doors only to enter many of the Emerging Churches doors their sentiments toward them are not warming. Disdain, rumors, and heterodoxy charges are in the murmurs of the mobs…what will be the outcome of this tension? how did the Church in the West get here? Are Traditional Churches – Evangelicals, Reformed, and Presbyterian included here – ready to stomach the fact that they may have inadvertently created the Emerging Churches movements? If you’re Emerging or Emergent this notion is probably a rank stench, but I believe there is substance behind it, please keep reading. (more…)
