The Emergent Church

Here’s a comment I left on Alissa’s blog recently in a discussion about what the “Emergent Church” is. For my non-Christian readers this kind of thing will probably baffle you for sure (it baffles me)… but, alas, this may very well be an interesting read:

WarAxe says:

Ask 10 people what makes a church emergent and you’ll get 13 answers. Do we want an emerging church to be the anti-traditional-church? Like wearing no clothes… or not wearing dressy clothes? The crunchies would say that “dressing up” on Sunday isn’t required to honor God… yet they dress up on Monday to go to work… isn’t that funny? (I, btw, dig wearin’ the jeans to Terra Nova)

Does emergent mean we’re too cool for pews? Does emergent mean 3-point sermons are for our grandparents… we want circular sermons with ethereal incense-induced spirit-filled epiphanies bookended with DVD video shorts containing no scripture?

I dunno… I’m the first to point out legalistic fundementalism… but I’m also miffed by over-modernized “churches” who give out cold water at homosexual events in nobody’s name… so that maybe the homosexuals will like them again.

Perhaps the emergent church is the shedding of all ideology that is not Biblically based, embracing contemporary cultural freshness, and then - while focusing on core Biblical truth sans non-Biblical church tradition - creating an open community of fellowship, without artificial boundaries, that is free to express praise to the Creator by all means.

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