– CT: Reformed Protestants No Longer See Images as Idolatrous.
– BackyardMissionary: incarnational-v-attractional-mission
– ComplexChrist: Thoughts on Carson (+ SiJohnston)
– Next-Wave: On Emergent
– TheVoiz: Study on the American Emerging Church
Emerging Church Stuff
what do you think of this response to Brian’s McLaren’s Generous Orthodoxy?
http://christianscholar.net/?p=21
i just took a look but i find it hard to get through the first paragraph. . .
“There is a growing movement within the evangelical church. Titled “the Emergent Church” (or EC for short), this growing group of churches can be defined by a disenchantment with modernity, a deconstruction of commonly held beliefs for the purpose of dialogue between differing traditions within Christianity, a rejection of various forms of ministry adopted by the church in the second half of the twentieth century, and a questioning of . . ”
now THAT does NOT describe this thing that i am sacrificing so much for – where did he get that definition from?
If thats the emerging church, then i am not part of it.
This kind of thing has been going on in the CRC ever since their formulation of the three points of common grace. This has led to a blurring of the antithesis. There are some good articles about the split that happened in the CRC on this web site.
http://www.prca.org/
The definition sounds faintly representative of the wikepedia hoodbada…they just left out the incipient ecumenical stuff…
Blessings…