Sunday, April 24, 2005

Post-Emergent Theology?

Maybe I just wanted to be the first person to add my favorite over-used prefix to the term "emergent", but I think there is more that needs to be explored. It is not that I think the Emergent movement is bad. For what ever it is, I feel that it is wonderful. Whatever it is, I feel like it is something a great number of churches or "intentional Christian communities" will benefit from. This is exactly how I felt about Rick Warren/Billy Hybels and the Purpose Drive-Seeker Sensative churches. As a result of that movement, key questions arose that may not have "emerged" had it not been for the movement. Perhaps the most sriking question that arose out of the "seeker movement", was the question of the Church's emphasis on personal and decisional salvation as its central goal. While this issue is finnaly recieving the critical concideration it deserves, I feel this critical reflection would not have happened if it weren't for the distilled focus on personal salvation that the seeker movement so efficiently produced. In many ways, the emergent movement is distinctly post-seeker because its existance is a response to Willow Creek. I'm sure there are many other questions that have condensed in formation of the emergent villeges as an effect of reflection upon the "seeker movement". Now I want to ask, what are the new questions that will arise as a result of the "emergent church" movement.

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