You Might Be Emergent If…

[billiefan2000]

http://christianresearchnetwork.com/?p=4898

You Might Be Emergent If…


Published April 16th, 2008 by Editor in Emerging Church, Ya Gotta Laugh


Tim Challes asks Have you ever wondered if you are emergent?


I know I have!


Here is Kevin DeYoung


co-author of Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) on how you might know if you are emergent…

After reading nearly five thousand pages of emerging-church literature,


I have no doubt that the emerging church,


while loosely defined and far from uniform,


can be described and critiqued as a diverse, but recognizable, movement.



You might be an emergent Christian if:

- you listen to U2, Moby, and Johnny Cash’s Hurt (sometimes in church),


use sermon illustrations from The Sopranos,



drink lattes in the afternoon and Guinness in the evenings,


if your reading list consists primarily


of Stanley Hauerwas

Henri Nouwen

N. T. Wright

Stan Grenz

Dallas Willard

Brennan Manning

Jim Wallis

Frederick Buechner

David Bosch

John Howard Yoder

Wendell Berry

Nancy Murphy

John Franke

Walter Winks

and Lesslie Newbigin


(not to mention McLaren, Pagitt, Bell, etc.)



and your sparring partners include D. A. Carson, John Calvin, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, and Wayne Grudem;


if your idea of quintessential Christian discipleship is Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, or Desmond Tutu…




Read the rest at Challies.com


http://www.challies.com/archives/articles/quotes/you-might-be-emergent-if.php

Full the full effect listen to Todd Friel of Way of The Master Radio review the entire indicators with Johnny Cash’s Hurt playing in the background.


http://www.wayofthemasterradio.com/podcast/2008/04/03/april-03-2008-hour-2/



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[sandylion]

Uh-oh!!:panicI think I might be emergent!! Sometimes I drink lattes in the afternoon and Guiness in the evenings!! :poundWhat happens if you do it the other way around?? :scratch

[icebear]

What happens if you do it the other way around?? :scratch

you might be Irish?

:pound

[Janh7]

Thanks for posting this. It is serious stuff.

[kalanaka]

Uh-oh!!:panicI think I might be emergent!! Sometimes I drink lattes in the afternoon and Guiness in the evenings!! :poundWhat happens if you do it the other way around?? :scratch

you might be Irish?

:pound

You guys are too funny... :lol2

Our only solution may be to put the lattes down and double up on the Guiness... :aha

In Christ... :hat

[kalanaka]

Thanks for posting this. It is serious stuff.

You are quite correct Janh7... This is a very serious matter.

It's sad to see this apsotasy spreading...

I pray the Lord will open their eyes to the truth... :pray

In Christ... :hat

[billiefan2000]

Thanks for posting this. It is serious stuff.

youre welcome


BTW half the christian community in my town Omaha is apparently Emergent cause a lot of the books are promoted by church leaders here



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[Janh7]

Here too, Billefan.

[JoelH]

Basically you are an emergent type if your intellectual heroes are the cafe/bar-going "urban chic" intellectuals in places like New York, San Francisco Bay Area, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, etc. Except you pepper your words with 'God'.

I notice the stress on "engaging the world". The early church fathers had done it, and most of them, while good intentioned, also produced much compromises with the world. For example, Clement of Alexandria was gung ho on the engaging the world through human philosophies, and he ended up making the faith like the disperse moral code regulations and this gave birth to mysticism, which is a forerunner to today's contemplative prayer movement. Mark Driscoll and co are repeating Clement of Alexandria's mistakes.

"The first time an event in history happens, it is a tragedy. The second time, it is a farce."

[sandylion]

I've always said this last generation keeps recycling old ideas rather than coming up with their own. Seriously, they can't even create their own dress code, instead they've stolen all our ideas from the 60's 70's and 80's. What my kids think is so new and cool is just old reruns to me. :rolleyes