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Category: Series: Emergent

  • Emergent

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    Emergent (Part 1)Emergent (Part 2)Emergent (Part 3)Emergent (Part 4)Emergent (Part 5)Sanctification Through Community (Emergent, Part 6)Setting the Captive Free for Ministry (Emergent, Part 7)Four Leadership Responses to Emergent Concerns (Emergent, Part 8)Dying for the Church Emergent (Emergent, Part 9)Understanding the Postmodern Shift (Emergent, Part 10)

  • Understanding the Postmodern Shift (Emergent, Part 10)

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    What will the Church look like in twenty-five years? It is impossible to know. I expect the lines between traditions and institutions will continue to blur. All we can do is look at the trajectories of change. Here are four transitions I see as we move into a Postmodern era. 1. From autonomous objective intellect…

  • Dying for the Church Emergent (Emergent, Part 9)

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    When most people think of "Emergent Church," they often think of young adults worshiping together at candle-lit services and having deep conversations about postmodern epistemological issues. No doubt, this is a slice of the Emergent Church. However, when I think of Emergent Church, I think of something much broader. George Barna has just published a…

  • Four Leadership Responses to Emergent Concerns (Emergent, Part 8)

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    One of my favorite commercials is a FedEx commercial from several years ago. A guy is sitting in a corporate mail room with a bank of telephones in front of him, each ringing away. He picks up one. In his most upbeat, can-do voice, he says, "Have that in Poughkeepsie by 9:00? I can do…

  • Setting the Captive Free for Ministry (Emergent, Part 7)

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    John M. Perkins has been a dynamic leader in civil rights, race reconciliation, and economic Justice over the past few decades. He was instrumental in forming the Christian Community Development Association and is the head of the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation & Development. I have always been impressed with his practical and profound…

  • Sanctification Through Community (Emergent, Part 6)

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    Years ago, I heard a speaker tell of an epiphany about her husband. She said one of the things she found attractive about her husband when they were dating was how attentive he was too little details. Not that this should have been surprising. He was a very successful accountant. One night, years after they…

  • Emergent (Part 5)

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    I have written about my Meyers-Briggs NT Rationalist experience in the church in the last two posts. I have also speculated that the number of N.F. Idealists alienated from Evangelical institutions are probably greater than the number of N.T.s. Where did these alienated intuitive types go? Some of these types departed Evangelical institutions and started…

  • Emergent (Part 4)

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    Yesterday I wrote that the Emergent Church seems heavily populated by Meyers Briggs intuitive types. I differentiated them this way: “Sensing types are highly observant of the factual details around them. Intuitive types are introspective as they scan the environment for patterns of organization.” Sensing types tend to value words like sensible, practical, realistic, and…

  • Emergent (Part 3)

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    Several people have asked me about my interest in the Emergent Church phenomenon. My Presbyterian history makes my interest seem incongruent to some. I also have been more vocal about the priesthood of believers in recent years. Some have wondered where my passion for this topic comes from. Rodger Sellers suggested a few days ago…

  • Emergent (Part 2)

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    The Emergent Village sponsored the gathering I was at last week, held at the Glorietta Retreat Center, sixteen miles east of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Below is a picture of the registration building and a look at the mountains surrounding the camp. Our nearly 170 participants were lodged in hotel-style arrangements, apartments, and cabins, according…