Tag: emerging church
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The Church Basement Roadshow – Kansas City, MO
Tera Yakel sent me an email announcing that: Jacob’s Well will host the Kansas City leg of The Church Basement Roadshow A Rollin’ Gospel Revival on Sunday, July 13th at 7:30 pm in the sanctuary. The tour featuring Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette will hit thirty-two cities across the U.S., with a message…
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A View from the Pew of One Emerging Presbyterian Woman on the Recent GA
Here is a letter from one of my loyal Presbyterian readers in California and an avid Emerging Church conversationalist. She wrote this letter to Bruce Reyes-Chow, our new moderator, in response to a post he wrote Can we agree to disagree about homosexuality? She expresses well what I hear others saying. (Name is withheld, but…
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Emergent’s New Christians and the Young and Restless Reformed
Christianity Today: Emergent's New Christians and the Young and Restless Reformed A new movement is attracting a younger generation of Christians, shaking up institutions, denominations, and churches along the way. Not everyone in the movement is attracted to it for the same reasons, but they gather at conferences and online to share thoughts, debate, and…
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MEC: Emerging (Evangelical?) Christians
At the beginning of Part 3 (Chapter 10) in Everything Must Change, on "Reframing Jesus," McLaren offers the emerging view of the gospel contrasted with what he considers the conventional view. At the end of this section, McLaren will write that his conventional view articulated here "…can be modified with an almost infinite number of…
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MEC: My Personal Context
All of us come from a particular context. A sizeable number of people drawn to the emerging church and Brian McLaren's writings have come from theologically and politically conservative church backgrounds. As I begin this series on Brian McLaren's Everything Must Change, I think sharing some of my context with you is important. Many of…
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What are Emerging’s advantages?
Jesus Creed (Scot McKnight): What are Emerging’s advantages? Greetings Scot, I was one of your students at Trinity Evang Div School… Although my leanings are not emerging/emergent, I want to be fair, honest, and even-handed as I share on the emerging/emergent movement. My questions are these: 1) Could you (or your blog responders) share what…
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Americans Embrace Various Alternatives to a Conventional Church Experience as Being Fully Biblical
Barna Group: Americans Embrace Various Alternatives to a Conventional Church Experience as Being Fully Biblical (Ventura, CA) 2008 promises to be a year of significant change for Americans. The presidential election has already introduced significant transitions into the political process and conversation. The sagging economy is altering many people’s financial behavior and lifestyles. New technology…