Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Why I Am Not Emergent

This title doesn't refer to me, of course. I don't call myself an emergent Christian; I like to call myself a "missional follower of Jesus Christ". Yeah, I know it sounds like I'm about ready to move to Waco with my wife and my other wife and thirty followers and invest in Kool-Aid packets, but I like the term personally.

"Why I Am Not Emergent" refers to this article. It reminds me that a lot of people have some really whacked out ideas of what the emergent church believes. Obviously this piece is satire; however, I have heard similar claims by those who don't like the emergent movement simply because they have seen a quote from a book by Brian McLaren, or they've heard through the grapevine about a fringe emergent church, and assume that these small things add up to the whole of the emergent movement. Which obviously isn't true.

2 comments:

darker than silence said...

I've heard some of the same statements here at C.C.U.

But the baby-eating one is a new one :)

Anonymous said...

Hey Adam! Me and Kristen are back now from the trip and we have tons of pictures. If you want us to give a presentation for next Sunday when we get home thats fine, just let me know.