Sentences with phrase «emerging church»

What first attracted me to emerging church writers and speakers was their willingness to confront difficult theological issues and even challenge traditional evangelical doctrine.

No, instead, these came from the writings of emerging church leader Brian McLaren in the book he cowrote with Tony Campolo entitled Adventures in Missing the Point.

Mr Hubbard added the Church of England is learning from new and emerging church movements which are growing.

I've been doing a lot of reading recently from all sides of the current «Emerging Church Movement» debate.

Pull up a bean bag, grab a coffee and chat with us for a while about Emerging Church, Blogging, Faith and other General Silliness from South of the Equator.»

But his association with emerging Church theology earns him critics.

I was late to the emergent / emerging church conversations because Christians who were loving the talk about how faith is and continues to change in the U.S. were and continue to be predominantly White.

Emerging church leader Brian McLaren is the author of We Make the Road By Walking.

It wasn't until I started reading books by emerging church types that the question of nonviolence came back to my attention for serious consideration.

While emerging churches talk a lot about being relevant to postmodern culture, they are also aware that there is a danger in relevance.

Less obvious to me is the fact that, under no circumstances should you stand in front of a progressive, emerging church group and refer to God as «He»... unless you are prepared to divert the entire conversation to an argument over pronouns and the divine feminine.

In some quarters of my denomination and other conservative evangelical expressions, those lied about are often church planters and contemporary or emerging church pastors.

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Future Time).

Unlike the megachurch and church growth movements of the 1980s and «90s, emerging churches resist models and templates — the franchising of church life.

This is the NEW emerging church.

Interestingly enough, those who are more Anabaptist in their theology and ethos, tend to be more open to emerging church authors and issues.

I get the privilege of hanging out with a lot of emerging churches and twenty something ministries.

Sometimes the missional / emerging church movement looks dangerously like the world around it, but at the same time, sometimes the traditional / (dare I say) less missional church looks dangerously separate from the world around it.

I personally have felt challenged by emerging church writers to more faithfully follow Jesus in caring for the poor, ministering to the sick, exercising spiritual self - control, and being more cautious about passing judgments on others.

Wide Open Spaces Jim Palmer With Divine Nobodies, emerging church leader Palmer touched a nerve with readers who gravitate toward cutting - edge evangelical writers like Brian McLaren and Donald Miller.

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

It needs to give more traditional evangelicals platforms and be honest about the failing of the emerging church (if that's still a thing anyone talks about).

Will the emerging church go down the same nondoctrinal path as the mainline church relative to postmodernism?»

He has my admiration as a pioneer of the Emerging Church... which has turned out to be an emerging community of equal voices.

«Defining the emerging church is like nailing Jell - O to the wall,» the authors write.

I've been part of the emerging church (and I kind of still am in the truest sense of the word) but sang its swan song while secretly hoping for its resurrection.

As you may know, one of the most talked - about debates between the traditional church and the emerging church has to do with the gospel.

Her involvement with the emerging church and Emergent Village has filled the better part of 10 years.

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

BTW... I recently read several books from Dan Kimball on Emergent issues, Emerging Worship, and The Emerging Church.

Like a lot of twenty - somethings who grew up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I've been increasingly drawn to the emerging church movement.

I think the Emerging Church is asking some great questions and raising some great issues, but I don't think they have offered some good answers.

I love how the emerging church movement has encouraged me to focus more on following Jesus Christ and less on being right about theology.

What have your encounters with the emerging church been like?

For example, while I love the fact that many in the emerging church have embraced a more inclusive attitude toward religious pluralism, we don't want to follow the postmodern tendency to ignore or gloss over the significant differences that exist among the world's religions.

Some say that the danger here is that the emerging church will throw theology and doctrine out altogether.