Emerging Church?
Hello....I hope you all have been doing well. I have been on the road the past few days and have not been able to post. I am curious about what any of you may know about the emerging church movement. I am not very familiar with it but have read a few things from different leaders in the movement. One quote I read recently has caused me some concern. Brian McLaren (an emergent church leader) said that "clarity is overrated and that ambiguity is preferable."
In some ways I feel like the church is to ambiguous as it is. It seems to me that clarity is missing today. How can people really know and understand the truth we stand for if we are intentionally ambiguous. It makes me ask "what is our goal?" Is our goal to blend in and hope that people can't see how we are different? Or is our goal to be clear about what we stand for? If we are ambiguous how can we be the light of the world? How can we be a contrast to what the world does and teaches? It seems to me that Ambiguity is overrated!
Just a thought!
Will
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I think that some of the leaders in the emerging church can be very harmful, but I from what I have read it seems like you can't narrow everyone into the same mold. There is a lot of differences in the movement it seems. I have been reading a book by Brian D. McLaren and Tony Campolo two emerging leaders, and it is terrible the stuff they say. They argue for women as ministers, refers to God as a him or her,describes the Bible as an amazing collection of literary artifacts giving little or no credit to the authority of the Bible, and many other things that draw red flags for me. I think there is some real danger in the movement, but there can be some good learned from them, maybe?
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