What do you guys think of postmodernism and the emergent church?
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
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My brief synopsis of the Emergent Church, based on a little research:
- Biblical Truth is secondary to experience
- Liberalism is creeping in (i.e. God loves you just the way you are has become less about God meeting you where you are with the desire to transform you into His nature and likeness, and more about it being OK who you are, just as you are.)
-Worship seems more focused on pleasing the senses of the participant than wholly honoring the Lord in Spirit and Truth.
Obviously, I have concerns about what I've read both about the Emergent Church and by big-name people in it. However, I am not an expert, and I'm in the midst of my own examination on it. I'm interested to hear other views too.
awkward moment...i dont' even know what that is!
hahah..you are funny...you should feel awkward..what kind of christian are you to not have heard of these things. :) TOTALLY kidding. anyway, the emergent church and postmodernism...how to sum it up in a few words? well, it's kind of like christianity for this day and age. elizabeth has read bad things about it...which it's not all bad like that. but there are a lot of christians who don't say good about it. but even in just the traditional christianity there has been things people have made or done that's not that great. i am not saying i totally believe everything the emergent church has to say, but then again..i don't like a lot of what "christians" have done to christianity.
i'm starting to have a huge respect for the catholic church.
I have much APPRECIATION and almost-support for the emergent critical thinking part of the movement---but i don't really like the term "church" attached to it. it is not it's own denomination that is defined by being over and against all others. it is a movement in which people stop to listen to one another's voices and discuss and begin critically thinking about what we have all been taught all of our lives. I think it is VERY beneficial to be doing that. Obviously, some are worried that it could get out of hand and become a "melting pot" wherein there is no such thing as "orthodox" theology anymore....but I don't think it will go that far. I think the emergent movement is helping to bring Christianity into a realistic cooperation with psychological truth, social responsibility, ethics, justice, existential questions, and the like. The latter are areas that aren't often emphasized and should be. I think it is a helpful movement, but that we should remain critical of it as well.
why do you say that roni? jo! good to hear from you. good to hear your thoughts on this. i like how you defined it too.
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