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Joshua Tent

Oct 27, 2005

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in Ecclesia, Emerging Church, Kansas City

Monday, I wrote about the importance of providing concrete examples of emerging congregations. I wrote a little about Jacob's Well in my October 19 entry. Jacob's Well has been around for almost seven years and was a conscious attempt to reach people inhabiting a postmodern mindset. I noted in one of my posts this week…

Emergent

Oct 25, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Series: Emergent

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)

Oct 25, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Series: Emergent

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…

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

Oct 24, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Series: Emergent

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)

Oct 22, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Series: Emergent

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)

Oct 21, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Series: Emergent

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…

“The Church, Embracing Grace, and Racisim” Scot McKnight

Sep 29, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Race

I have been catching up on blogs I missed last week and discovered a series on racism by author Scot McKnight. The first post is: The Church, Embracing Grace, and Racism I love his opening paragraph: "If you embrace a kingdom vision of the gospel itself, racism is nothing short of disgusting. If you embrace…

Biblical Authority in Emerging Christianity

Sep 17, 2005

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mwkruse

in Books, Emerging Church, Theology

I have written several times about the foundationalist nature of theology and scripture in modernism. Liberal theology looks for a universal experience common to all humanity as its foundation for theology. The universal experience becomes the interpretative lens for doing theology and usually reduces scripture to a high expression of the universal experience, but it…

Postmodern Black Church (or a church where a Negro can feel at home)

Sep 10, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church, Race

More than a month ago, I posted a link to Anthony Smith’s blog called Musings of a Post-Modern Negro. He was beginning a series called “Postmodern Black Church (or a church where a Negro can feel at home)” Well, it took a while, but recently, he began posting on this topic. The first three posts…

Fundamentalists In The Emerging Church?

Sep 2, 2005

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mwkruse

in Emerging Church

Fundamentalists In The Emerging Church? Here is an interesting post by Andrew Jones. Excerpt: "This is how I see it. Inside the emerging church, which is a vastly complex movement, there are probably 3 distinct responses to secular humanism and our current postmodern age: 1. A fundamentalist rejection and protest (isolationism, exclusivity) 2. An unthinking…

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