If the thoughts in this post from CS monitor (in light of the recent article and study reported in USA Today) are true then I sadly don’t think the church in the US is ready.
The coming evangelical collapse | csmonitor.com
Check out http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/the-aris-study-christianity-on-the-decline-in-america for more thoughts on this from the original source for the CS monitor post.
Continue reading about More changes coming on the religious landscape
This morning I opened up my email inbox and there was this article about Driscoll defining emergent/emerging churches is a way "we can all understand" Monday Morning Insight Weblog: It has link to a PDF of an article by Mark in the Criswell Journal (which also has an interview with Brian McLaren giving his perspective that the [...]
One of my favorite writers speakers and evangelicals Tony Campolo has a great article on beliefnet.com calling for a new approach to Christian participation in the political arena. He wants to
jump-start a religious movement that will transcend partisan politics. Believing that Jesus is neither a Republican nor a Democrat, we want to unite Christians who are concerned about [...]
Maurice Broaddus has this to say in an article Black People in the Conversation over at emergent diversity
In a lot of ways, the emergent church struck me as, well, the Christian equivalent of the grunge movement. A little subversive, a little edgy, and whole lot of white, middle class evangelicals trying to make Christianity look [...]
Continue reading about emergent diversity – conversations about race and emergence
In an article on On Evangelicals and Interfaith Cooperation, an interview with Tony Campolo makes this statement that I think is relevant to the spiritual practice of (racial) reconciliation I suggested in my post emergent thread.
TC: Rather than making theological statements, we need to tell each other our stories. Jesus would tell stories and then [...]
Continue reading about Telling the story – Wise words from Tony Campolo
As I share in a comment to the original post I was un prepared for the the nerve that this post has struck in the emerging church blogosphere. I think it is important to share the wealth of thought that is being generated on the subject. Not everyone sees it the way I do (that’s [...]
Continue reading about post emergent pt III – sharing the wealth
Dr. Robert Webber (Author of The Younger Evangelicals and the Ancient-Future series will give a presentation and then there will be Q&A over lunch (lunch is provided). September 15 and 16.
The cost is $20/person. Dr. Webber will also be speaking on Friday at 10AM at GRTS’s Chapel and worship will be led by Troy Hatfield from Mars Hill Bible Church.
Please check out the details at
http://grts.cornerstone.edu/resources/clc
And contact Diana O’Connor (616.222.1422) to register.
Continue reading about Connecting with the Church’s Younger Evangelicals
there a lot of talk today about new this and new that. new church, new church plant, but do we need new evangelicals. i don’t much care for the word but evangelical does serve as a description of one stream of the christian faith. tom sine who heads up mustard seed associates with his wife [...]
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