"May I take your order?"
"Yes, I'd like a religious experience, please, with extra feelings, but no absolute doctrine."
"Alright. That'll be one emotional trip, stripped. Would you like anything else with that?
"Uh, well, yes, can I have a side of candles, non judgmentalism, and some theological deconstruction?"
"Alright, so you want a light, free, decon. Is that all?"
"Yeah."
"Alright, that..."
"No wait, I just remembered. Can I have a truth slushy? I want it really slushy!
"Very good, that'll cost you biblical truth and eternal life at the window."
"Okay, thanks." (http://carm.org/emerging-church)
This is a "Produced Church", it's "Contemporvant". Chronological snobbery says "because it's old it's no good". Bob Coy shares how when it comes to church, traditions shouldn't be tossed out just because it's "old".
"Yes, I'd like a religious experience, please, with extra feelings, but no absolute doctrine."
"Alright. That'll be one emotional trip, stripped. Would you like anything else with that?
"Uh, well, yes, can I have a side of candles, non judgmentalism, and some theological deconstruction?"
"Alright, so you want a light, free, decon. Is that all?"
"Yeah."
"Alright, that..."
"No wait, I just remembered. Can I have a truth slushy? I want it really slushy!
"Very good, that'll cost you biblical truth and eternal life at the window."
"Okay, thanks." (http://carm.org/emerging-church)
This is a "Produced Church", it's "Contemporvant". Chronological snobbery says "because it's old it's no good". Bob Coy shares how when it comes to church, traditions shouldn't be tossed out just because it's "old".
| GOOD within the movement | BAD within the movement |
| Contextualize the Gospel | Watering down the Gospel |
| Speak the cultural language | Use culture to dominate the message |
| Different media of expression and focus | Media used in unbiblical ways |
| Provides absolutes in a non absolute world | Absolutes of doctrine are optional |
| Focused attempt to reach the lost | Reaching the lost trumps truth statements |
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Seek and save that which is lost and press on in Love,
Tim Molter, bondservant of Jesus
Tim Molter, bondservant of Jesus
