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 [...]
Tag Archives: Emerging church
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
26 August, 2008 – 1:32 AM
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 [...]
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 – 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 [...]
Head in the (quick) sand
19 April, 2008 – 3:11 PM
foto 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 [...]
An Ecclesiological Assessment of the Emerging Church
31 May, 2007 – 7:00 PM
John Hammett has written An Ecclesiological Assessment of the Emerging Church. Emerging church
10 Questions for Steve Jones
20 March, 2007 – 7:26 AM
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 [...]
10 questions for Martin Robinson
13 February, 2007 – 5:04 AM
I caught up with Martin Robinson for lunch this week in Melbourne. Martin is a prolific author on the church and it mission and heads up Together in Mission. He’s based in Birmingham, England. He’s in Australia on a national tour, running a series of church planting seminars. 1. Question: What’s new? Answer: Church planting [...]
What did you go out to see?
9 February, 2007 – 8:41 AM
Here’s a wonderful piece of writing from tallskinnykiwi on how to recognize where God is at work and get involved: “What did you go out to see?” Jesus asked the crowds, in reference to a popular desert pilgrimage to John the Baptist. They expected a monarch, but God sent a monk. Outmoded expressions of prophetic [...]
