In his recent book Deep Church: A third way beyond Emergent and Traditional, author Jim Belcher identifies 7 themes that the emergent church is "protesting" about the traditional church. In general, Belcher says emergents are protesting traditionalists':
1. Captivity to Enlightenment rationalism
2. Narrow view of salvation
3. belief before belonging
4. Uncontextualized worship
5. Ineffective preaching
6. Weak ecclesiology
7. Tribalism
So what about you? Are you concerned about these issues or do other issues define you as an emergent Christian? We'll discuss these issues at our March meeting.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
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