Yesterday’s afternoon session added some more moderate opinions to the mix. The older pastors in attendance encouraged everyone to think of the Emerging Church as a movement like the charismatic movement of the 60s/70s. Some of it is good and we need to integrate it; some is bad and we need to discard it.
I was happy to hear this. I think everyone was a little shocked at the intensity of the attack at the morning session, but by the afternoon there had been time to process it and to respond to it intelligently.
We’ll see what today brings.
Last night I performed some songs at the after service cafe. It went well I suppose, although coffeehouse gigs are tough because people are there to talk, not listen, so they don’t really notice when you start or stop. Oh well.
Dan Rempel (who is the head elder at the church I’m a pastor at) are leading a workshop this morning called “clear.communication: Staying Relevant in a Changing World”. Its been a struggle to prepare for – not because we couldn’t get our stuff together but because more and more ideas come up every time we met to discuss. We’ll be lucky to keep it to an hour today… we’ll also be lucky if half the people know what we’re talking about. We’ll have to dial down the geek talk a bit.
