September 8 2011 Conversation

The cohort will meet on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM at ESCAPE in Allen. We'll start our conversation with a question Tony asked last month: If you start on the emergent journey, how do you avoid heresy? That should lead to some other thought provoking questions like what is heresy? What happens if my heresy is your orthodoxy? How does an emergent group (or individual) work out this issue? See you Thursday.

Brian McLaren will participate in a seminar in the Dallas area on September 30 and October 1. Here is a link to the page that has the details: http://lifeinthetrinityministry.com/ Click on the "Four Cornerstones of Emerging Christianity" link to get registration and location information.

August 11 meeting summary

After taking the month of July off, it was nice to get back together in August. Our group of eight included 3 first timers. Tony offered to set us up as a google-group, so you can participate in on-going discussions by going to north-dallas-cohort@googlegroups.com and joining the group. Thanks Tony. After spending some time introducing ourselves and catching up with each others' lives, we started a discussion about how to tell when you've gone too far in your quest for emergence...how can you avoid heresy along your journey? We'll pick up this topic again in September. Ken observed that we seem like a group that talks about emergence, but are we practicing emergence? What would that look like? Very good insight, Ken. That make me wonder, should someone who thinks they are emergent be an evangelist for emergence...or is it enough to just be emergent? Your thoughts?