Church and Emergent Church and Emerging / Emergent Church and Emerging Church and Friends and Theology Michael Krahn on 24 Sep 2008 11:03 am
What is an “emergent”?
Someone just emailed me this question: “What is an emergent?”
This is a sincere question from a friend of mine who is not a church attender who honestly knows nothing about the Emerging Church conversation. He is quite Biblically literate, philosophically deep, and a great artist and aspiring luthier to boot.
How would you answer his question?
Michael Krahn (michael.krahn@gmail.com) is a husband, father, Pastor, writer, and recording artist who enjoys books, theology, technology and the Ottawa Senators.
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on 24 Sep 2008 at 12:24 pm # Matt
You might be a redneack…er… emergent if…
-Political concerns are poverty, AIDS, imperialism, war-mongering, CEO salaries, consumerism, global warming, racism…
-If you talk about the myth of redemptive violence and the myth of certainty
-If you lie awake at night having nightmares about all the ways modernism has ruined your life
-If you search for truth but aren’t sure it can be found
-If you loathe words like linear, propositional, rational, machine, and hierarchy and use words like ancient-future, jass, mosaic, matrix, missional, vintage, and dance
-If you like your theology narrative instead of systematic
-If you want to be the church and not just go to church
-If you long for a community that is relational, tribal, and primal like a river or garden
-If you believe who goes to hell is no one’s business and no one may be there anyway
-If you believe salvation has a little to do with atoning for guilt and a lot to do with bringing the whole creation back into shalom with it’s maker
-If it bugs you when people talk about going to heaven instead of heaven coming to us
-If you disdain monological , didactic preaching
-If you use the word “story” in all your propositions about postmodernism
- a partial list from Kevin DeYoung