Ed Stetzer wonders why so many “missional” churches are uninterested in doing global missions. Others have wondered why the emerging/missional church doesn’t do evangelism.
Dan Kimball agrees that something is wrong: “For the past few years, I have been observing, listening, and asking questions about the missional movement. I have a suspicion that the missional model [...]
Category Archives: Emerging church
Missional Fad vs Missional Movement
11 January, 2010 – 9:43 PM
When “missional” churches aren’t
9 January, 2010 – 1:14 PM
Ed Stetzer wonders why some missional churches don’t do global missions.
It appears to me that many missional churches are missing the Great Commission in the name of being missional. That makes zero sense.
I was recently told by a pastor who called himself “missional” that his church needed to pull back on their global mission support [...]
Dan Kimball hopes he’s wrong
21 March, 2009 – 7:50 AM
For the past few years, I have been observing, listening, and asking questions about the missional movement. I have a suspicion that the missional model has not yet proven itself beyond the level of theory.
Dan Kimball
Dan hopes he is wrong. I think he is right.
The emerging/missional church has not delivered on multiplying new Christians and [...]
Sweet thoughts on the emerging church
7 November, 2008 – 8:04 PM
Are the glory days over? Leonard Sweet speaks out on the emerging church. . .
The emerging church has become another form of social gospel. And the problem with every social gospel is that it becomes all social and no gospel. All social justice and no social gospel. It is embarrassing that evangelicals have discovered and [...]
Emerging church—DOA?
16 October, 2008 – 5:57 PM
Url Scaramanga announces the early demise of the “emerging church” in RIP Emerging Church: An overused and corrupted term now sleeps with the fishes. … HT: Alan Hirsch UPDATE: Ed Stetzer’s article on The Emerging Church, the Emergent Church, and the Faith Once Delivered to the Saints.
The Church confronts (Post?) Modernity
25 August, 2008 – 12:32 PM
I’m reading Catholicism and modernity: Confrontation or capitulation? by James Hitchcock. Written in the late 1970s in the wake of Vatican II. He writes as an orthodox Catholic facing the growing liberalisation of his faith from within the Church.
There are striking parallels in the story of the Episcopalian demise in the US and Canada and [...]
Missionaries to Marxists
14 August, 2006 – 11:46 PM
Today I’m releasing the latest in a series of case studies in the lifecycle of a movement: SCM – Missionaries to Marxists
We’ll be looking at the final stage of the lifecycle: death. The case study I’ve chosen is especially instructive for those on left wing of the Emerging Church, described by Ed Stetzer as revisionists. [...]
Does the Emerging church have a problem with evangelism?
3 April, 2006 – 1:34 PM
Sitting around with a group of leaders in the early days of the Emerging church. Talking about reinventing the church for the postmodern context etc.
This floors me: “You know we’re just not reaching postmoderns. Maybe it’s like reaching Muslims. We could spend a whole lifetime and hardly see any new believers.”
Shocked because I’m [...]
Emerging mission
30 March, 2006 – 7:13 AM
As promised a few thoughts in response to the snapshot of the Emerging Church provided by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger.
Here’s the first of a number of posts: this one on the Emerging Church and mission.
Mission is obviously at the heart of the Emerging Church’s reason for existence. Unfortunately the authors don’t make clear what [...]
Emerging Evangelism
22 February, 2006 – 5:58 PM
Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger have a book out on the Emerging Church. I’m still waiting for my free copy to review.
Meanwhile it’s got at least one “conservative Jewish kid from the affluent suburbs” really mad.
Find out why in Emerging Errors: Evangelism
Is evangelism just another “modernist” plot?
“Emerging Churches: Creating Christian Community in Postmodern Cultures” (Eddie [...]
