Words on "The Last Word and The Word After That"
I just finished reading Brian Mclaren's "Last Word and the Word After That". I would like to have some critical thoughts on it. I feel rather wimpy just saying "I liked it" or that "he's pretty much right on". My pride wants to have something critical to say about that book just to show that I did think on my own as I read this book. In some ways, this is my concern. Am I just getting sucked into a new sub-catagory or sect of Christian thought? I feel like if I stepped back and listened to my own thoughts, with a the aid of some distance and perspective, I would imeadiatly recognise my thoughts as the "typical emmergent church" thoughts, and then I would dismiss myself by applying the lable of "dogmatic post-evangelical". This seems like such a real danger, I know that the fundemetalist who reads only "christian newspapers and books" will eventually get caught up in his ideological ghetto, I am begging to wonder if I have constructed my own ghetto. Someday will I look back at this and see myself as being caught up in a turn of the millenium fad. Am I a sheep of the counter-religious-right? It was only five years ago that the "seeker sensitive church" and "Purpose Driven Church" seemed so... "right". Now it seems so over simplified and narrow. I remember five years ago when our pastor said someone asked him what our church would do "after the seeker sensative movement was over". I put that thought in my back pocket, and sometimes I run across it while sorting through the intelectual laundry. This has me wondering, In five years, what will we look back on and see as being short sighted or too narrow about this "emergent church movement"?

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