Comments on: a love affair with transitioning?

By: One Beggar’s Bread » Blog Archive » Calvinism with a Heart and Legs

Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:03:39 +0000

[...] swers that work in any time or age. My hope is that as the Emerging Church grows and matures it will join hands and stand together with the Re-surging Ch [...]

By: joe

joe — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:31:54 +0000

The Emergent Conversation is for the tragically hip.

By: JQ

JQ — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:34:08 +0000

To the church: Fix your eyes on Jesus, and you will emerge as the church God meant you to be.

The whole Emergent thing (of which I am a recent observer) seems to be at the stage where it is in danger of fixating on itself. When you fix your eyes on yourself instead of Christ, you become self-focused (self-centered). This is something that can happen corporately as well as individually. Emergent (and the rest of us) just need to make sure that “it’s all about Jesus.”

By: Rich Kirkpatrick's Weblog

Rich Kirkpatrick's Weblog — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 20:31:26 +0000

POST-Postmodernism and the Hybrid Church

There is a movement of church work called the emergent church that I have been in close contact with but never an official part of. I have friends in it, read the books and seen the models. It all looks

By: Think Christian » Blog Archive » Emerging church critiques

Think Christian » Blog Archive » Emerging church critiques — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 18:27:54 +0000

[...] the emerging church (you have to know Marko to understand how that could happen!). Anyway, on his blog, he wonders if the emerging church – so much a response to all that is wrong with Church – [...]

By: sevita

sevita — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 22:17:27 +0000

first in reading your comment i wanted to say that no matter what happens in the future, i don’t think that there could be a “failure” for ys if you have been intentional about change. the rubber meeting the road may not be what you intended but something will happen. and second, i’m not sure what you mean by landing…isn’t that one of the downfalls of many churches today, they have landed and are reluctant to change so they become stagnent? are you wanting to land and yet stay open to transition???? to me this post sounds like your contradicting an earlier thought you had that the question is always better then the answer…

By: Chris Marsden

Chris Marsden — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:51:16 +0000

Our church is in the middle of a building program. We are not remotely “emerging” but not for any particular reason other than we feel we have been called to reach a particular community in a particular way. Not every method is for everybody. In two weeks I get to preach part of a sermon on Jesus asking Peter if he loves Him. My point is focus. Peter asks about John’s role in all this, and Jesus rebukes him. Don’t worry about John, worry about your part in it.

I think you are dead on. Too often we focus on the method, the tool, the people around us, or the transition instead of the purpose. The rest of the sermon is love Jesus and feed His sheep. John isn’t important, The church down the road isn’t important, and our building program isn’t important except as a tool in reaching the community. If I focused as much on what software I was buying as the answer to my ministry problems as we focus on the other things, people would think we missed the point.

Thanks for your insight. I may use this thought in my sermon.

By: marko

marko — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:51:21 +0000

that’s excellent, ken — thanks for sharing it

By: ken

ken — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:41:05 +0000

I think the link below has an interesting take on the emergent church and its state of transition.
Enjoy.

http://billarnold.typepad.com/poet_in_motion/mcdonaldization/index.html

By: marko

marko — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:49:58 +0000

west coast NYWC next year is in anaheim — nov 3 – 6 (2006)