For my pastor friends that have asked me about my thoughts concerning the emerging church I am listing a couple of links that echo my thoughts on the "movement". The first is a primer on the emerging church by Justin Taylor that I believe is accurate in its' description and analysis. The second is a youtube video with Al Mohler & Ravi Z. I thought my friend Jeff Fulford would especially enjoy Ravi's comments. In a future post I will share some thoughts on JT's article.
http://9marks.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/0,,PTID314526%7CCHID598014%7CCIID2249226,00.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv6uxCch7oc
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Thanks Randy - I have seen both of these links before and like them very much. I agree that the emergent/emerging church is not a monolith and we do have to be careful not to lump everyone together. The biggest issue I see is that even those folks who have not abandoned inerrancy and a "humble orthodoxy" are still being influenced by how they think by folks who have. We need to realize that there is no marriage possible between the revelatory and the miraculous with postmodernism. Postmodernism as just as warped and twisted by man ans modernism was. What "conversation" can we have with those who do not believe in the correspondence theory of truth and the referential theory of language. The only one that is possible is one that declares the absolute truth of the lostnesss of mankind and the need for a savior - empowered by the Holy Spirit. That is a dialogue that works in the premodern, modern, and postmodern culture. We need to stop thinking we have to buy the gospel a new set of clothes to help it "fit in." It doesn't need it - it cuts through every culture. It is okay to change the "form" (how we deliver, how we do church, etc.), as long as the content is unchanged and true to God's Word.
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