John Zxerce reviews Hugh Halter’s Tangible Kingdom and raises concerns that if correct, will derail the emerging-missional movement. The part of the book that most concerned me was their understanding of the gospel. The authors claim the gospel isn’t the answer of Jesus to the sin-problem of men and women. Rather, it’s “[God's] love and [...]
Tag Archives: Emerging
Missional Fad vs Missional Movement
12 January, 2010 – 10:43 AM
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 [...]
When “missional” churches aren’t
10 January, 2010 – 2:14 AM
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 [...]
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.
Emerging skepticism
25 April, 2008 – 8:57 PM
A new book on Emergent, the “left-wing†of the emerging church: Why We’re Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck You can visit the book’s website, download sample chapters and watch an interview of the authors. Here’s another interview of the authors on Darryl’s blog. The reviews on [...]
10 questions for Alan Hirsch
28 February, 2007 – 7:52 AM
1. Question: Why did you write Forgotten Ways? Answer: To cultivate an apostlic imagination and practice for the 21st century church. I was fascinated with the question of what makes an apostolic movement tick? How did they do it? I ended up exposed to the phenomenon of the apostolic church in it’s elemental forms—no resources [...]
Answering Anthony: The sequel
9 May, 2006 – 10:03 PM
Anthony: There is a fair amount of experimentation, most of it is destined to fail. Some valuable stuff will come through – but who and how can one pick it currently? Steve: Most apples fall to the ground and rot without ever producing a new tree. Ditto for mangoes (my favorite fruit), passionfruit, paw paw [...]
Answering Anthony
8 May, 2006 – 10:54 PM
I keep coming back to Anthony’s questions on the Emerging church. Waiting for the time to give them justice. Sometimes the best responses are the most candid. So here goes. Anthony: Am I right to say that there seems to be a disproportionate amount of interest or concern in the Emerging church movement? Why should [...]
Does the Emerging church have a problem with evangelism?
4 April, 2006 – 2:34 AM
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 [...]
