I read a great open letter to the Emergent Church today on Glen O'Brien's blog. Here is an excerpt from the blog I would encourage you to go read it all.
It is also hurtful (and myopic) to assume that the traditional church is not missional because it meets in a chapel and not in a pub or in a cafe and it sings hymns and preaches sermons and passes the plate in the good ol' fashioned way. My congregation averages about 25 people from all walks of life. Typically between Sundays, members do such things as volunteer in a cafe that ministers to street people, counsel marginalised youth, provide marriage counselling, volunteer construction help in a primary school in an impoverished area, talk to their neighbours about Jesus and the list goes on. Do people in the emergent church think they are the only ones who undertand this principle of incarnational presence in the world? Or that any of this is in any way new? What is "emergent" about this kind of living?
Source: The Batcave: An Open Letter to My Friends in the Emergent Church
Hey thanks for the recommendation. Glad it's generating some interest.
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