Categories: uncategorized
Date: 29 January 2005 11:45:55
Aaron at Radical Congruency asks
What does Emergent Inc do that cannot be done or is not already being done by individual Christians and the church? Do we need another structure?
I may be on a totally different track to the one Aaron's on, but reading that short question, the doors of church have just been thrown wide open to me. I can see so many different groups in there. Do I care about the labels on various bits? No. All I am interested in is how to get in in still more people, communicating Jesus' invitation in a way that will be understood.
And on a different track again
One of the comments on that post fits with me so well, I'll post it all here. I can't get the link working, so I can only tell you the author is April T. It's the 8th comment.
1- Me and a whole lot of other people have gone to traditional churches and have found them seriously lacking.
2- We can't quite put a finger on the reasons they don't seem to fit.
3- Somebody (Brian McLaren, et. al.) recognized this fact and some of the reasons why we feel this way and decided to discuss it out in the open.
4- Those same somebodies didn't want to put a definition on what is happening in our culture to separate us from traditional churches and left the door open intentionally so that we wouldn't be premature about where things were going.
5- We all took a big sigh of relief at finally being understood by somebody (et.al.), but all we know how to do is to try to put a definition on something that maybe we shouldn't be defining.
6- People are uncomfortable with change. They see our change and they assume that it must be wrong.
7- God looks down and smiles and says, “Just keep seeking me.”