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 [...]
Tag 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.
Too cool or not too cool? That is the question.
26 April, 2008 – 9:13 AM
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching commitment to faithfulness, we have become not only unfaithful but irrelevant; by our determined efforts to redefine ourselves in ways that are more compelling to the modern* world than are faithful to Christ, we have [...]
Emerging skepticism
25 April, 2008 – 6:57 AM
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 Amazon have been [...]
Head in the (quick) sand
19 April, 2008 – 3:11 PM
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I’ve been collecting historical and statistical data on church planting in Australia for the next1000 initiative.
It’s scary.
Not just the findings. . . . What is really scary is the flight from reality by so many denominations. They are intentionally that are hiding from the reality of their decline. Not only do they hide the data [...]
An Ecclesiological Assessment of the Emerging Church
31 May, 2007 – 7:00 PM
John Hammett has written An Ecclesiological Assessment of the Emerging Church.
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10 Questions for Steve Jones
19 March, 2007 – 6:26 PM
I met Steve Jones at the St Marys refresh conference and soon discovered he was a good candidate for 10 Questions. He’s planting a church out of one of the St Mary’s church plants. That makes St Mary’s a grandparent and Holy Trinity Brompton a great grandparent.
1. Tell me about your church plant?
I’m actually involved [...]
