a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
It seems like defining and defending the emerging church are the topics of the moment. Neither are easy to do. Andrew Jones has some well-written thoughts on the types of criticism being laid out right now. One of the main problems with the critique of the emerging church is defining what or who is the [...]
I just downloaded the latest firefox, and so far so good. And there are some things I noticed right away that I like better. The RSS notifier for one is now on the far right of the address bar at the top, instead of buried at the bottom. All my favorite extensions still work, and [...]
Jason Clark provided a link to the full paper written by Dr. Hammett, so instead of the article I posted earlier, this is a MUCH better read and straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. John Hammett on the Emerging Church The PDF linked to above was posted by the A-Team Blog. Dr. Hammett [...]
A common misconception about those proposing changes to church structure is that their only (or at least main) reason for suggesting the change is to accomodate culture. When mention is made of postmodern anything, the accusation is immediately levied: You’re selling out to culture! The Church isn’t formed around what the culture would want the [...]
A thoughtful and roughly fair article: link From the article, it appears Hammett does not seem to acknowledge the church’s current connection to modernity, but that could just be the fact that this is a fairly short article.
Over the past week or so, I’ve watched the Firefly series on DVD. I wanted to watch it before the movie Serenity came out, but alas, I am just now caught up on the entire series. Now, I have to wait until the movie comes out on DVD, because I’m pretty sure it’s not in [...]
Discussions on profanity and the emering church over at Emergent What?, although mostly contentious, have yielded some positives for me. For one, I’m reminded that one of the primary characteristics of the emerging church is the rejection of the boundary markers the establishment uses to determine who is in and who is out. I have [...]
3:12So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience; 13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, whoever has a complaint against anyone; just as the Lord forgave you, so also should you. 14Beyond all these things put on love, which [...]
It’s become apparent to me that the issue of culturally profane language is being used to discredit the emerging church. Although I doubt my ability to say anything which will be persuasive to persons who have already decided to absolutely condemn persons who do not feel cussing is sin and actually say cuss words, I’m [...]
An anti-emerging church blog posted a link to this writing by A.W. Tozer. While I don’t agree with all of what Tozer writes, I find myself often resonating with his passion and zeal for righteousness. Somehow, when he writes about righteousness, I don’t get the same feeling I get from most of the people who [...]