Emergent Village is Revolting

“Instead of “mission-al” we’re going to use “mission-y”. Its a bit shorter . . . a little bit more informal . . . and I think it will feel a little warmer to people.” Michael Toy, self-appointed National Director of Emergent Village. Big revolt going on at Emergent Village with the loss of their National…

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Pentecostals and the Emerging Church

Why were Pentecostals were ignored in the early emerging church movement? My Assembly of God friend Earl has some answers in his article Can We Be Pentecostal and Emergent? Reason Number One: “Origins: Early and influential EmChurch authors, webbers, and speakers were almost all from outside the P/C [Pentecostal] movement. Many were Reformed. Lots of…

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Off to Ireland for Emerge Gathering

Just heading off to the airport. I am going to Galway, Ireland for the weekend for ‘Emerge’ – the final installation in a series of conversations and trainings regarding the church emerging. And the speaker for the final session is . . . uhhh . . ME . . actually. Not sure if there are…

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Graham Cray on Fresh Expressions

The subject of Fresh Expressions came up yesterday in the classroom. Cliff is a Methodist college and the Methodists have joined hands with the Anglicans in this project. We talked about the full spectrum of emerging church, with Fresh Expressions being on the more structurally conservative side – with many Fresh Expressions still having paid…

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The Emerging Church As Best As I Remember it

Today I am speaking twice at Cliff College. My two lectures are [and yes, i changed the names]: 1. The Emerging Church, as best as I remember it 2. The Emerging Church: What were we thinking? . . . or something like that. Should be a good day. Please say hello if you see me…

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Pete Rollins and The Fidelity of Betrayal

My Irish mate Pete Rollins is doing a USA tour right now. Pete is an original and provocative thinker and you won’t be disappointed if you go out to hear him speak. He was one of the favorites at Greenbelt this year. There are moments when he sees things from a completely unique perspective and…

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Missional Primer

A Primer on Today’s Missional Church. Wondering what all the fuss is about with this word “missional”? No, I didn’t think so . . . but if you were, JR Woodward has uploaded a whopper post with a gizillion links to all things missional. Worth a link and perhaps a bookmark. My posts on the…

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Our Daily Bread and the Emerging Church

Some recent posts on the emerging church from Mart De Haan, President of RBC, the company behind the radio broadcasts and Our Daily Bread. HT: Bobjots What is Our Daily Bread? It is the longest, most consistent Christian publication in my journey as a believer from my teenage years when I read it daily, almost…

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Pyromaniacs are back

Pyromaniacs are back. After blipping off the blogosphere for a month, the Pyros are back. I think I really missed them. You might not like their dispensationalist theology or their anti-emerging church sentiments, and their readership can be pirahna-like in the comments . . . but you have to admit, they kick ass with their…

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Resource Training

Resource starts this weekend. There is still time to register. Its a one year program in the UK, built around certain training weekends so its totally doable for anyone. I teach occasionally at Resource weekends and they are really fun. The guy in this photo, btw, is none other than Maty Big Fro who often…

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Emerging Events

Some more dates and events for your consideration regarding church in the emerging culture. USA – Reclaiming Paul conference going on now in USA with Emergent Village. Check out the Tweets . . . I mean the Twemes. England – Big meeting on Dec 13 in England. The Tribal Generation network from Brazil are coming…

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Church 2.0 Tour

Greg Atkinson is setting up a Church 2.0 Fall Tour in preparation for a book in the near future on the subject. More on Facebook and DJ Chuang’s blog. Even though you might be getting tired of hearing about EVERYTHING 2.0, and the term is probably only continuing due to the O’Reilly conferences and their…

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We’ve Only Just Begun to Emerge, and more.

All kind of things emerging . . . – Mark DeVine points to an excellent chapter [download PDF] he wrote for a forthcoming book called E3: Evangelicals Engaging Emergent. – Welcome to the Common Root that launched last week with a less confusing name. – Paul Roberts demurs regarding The Great Emergence – IMG church…

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Emerging Church: Recent English Language Voices on the Transition

Australia “While I find much of value in the emerging, missional and neo-monastic conversations there is much that sits uneasy with me too, given where I am and where I have come from. I am seeking an understanding of postmodernity which is less monolithic than what I find the emergent stream is offering, I am…

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Ed Stetzer on the Emerging Church

Dr Stetzer has an outstanding paper on the American emerging church just released on The Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry [Download PDF]. Well researched and worth the read. There are not many examples of Baptist emerging movements but it is still a superb effort and reflects some of the diversity of the conversation. A…

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Now that we have stopped emerging . . .

In June 2004, I wrote a post called “When we stop emerging”. It appears that time has come. Some churches have matured and are no longer “emerging”. Some have ventured away from the inherited church and have come full circle to rejoin it. Some started and died and restarted again. Others went back to the…

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Emerging Church: The demise of the term since 2004

For those geeky church historians tracking the huge discussion on the death of the emerging church label, here is a little timeline of its demise from my humble and subjective point of view: 2004– My post entitled When We Stop Emerging stimulated some excellent discussion in the comments regarding the death of the name. 2004…

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