Comments on: The emerging church as its proponents and critics see it

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:39:30 +0000

Our family has been damaged by the emergent
movement. You are so right about it “all boils down to someone being personally disaffected in some way with other Christians in the past.”
Many of the “emergents” : Tony Jones, Chris Seay,
Chuck Smith Jr. etc. had loving childhoods and were just
plain old weak when they got to college. Chuck Smith Jr.
even wrote in the LA Times, that he “had to be in church”
when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan Show. BOOHOO!
I was avoiding a mean, angry father at the time.
Tony Jones is a bitter, angry, petty man. He likes to
criticize others arrogantly, and then feels offened if he
is questioned. The sad thing is that the emergents are
dangerous, because they are trying to drag down others
with their own lack of faith. Their talk of poverty is just
talk. Next time you shake an emergent man’s hand….
notice the lack of callouses or muscle.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:18:16 +0000

Thanks for the link. I just finished listening to it. I especially like Tony's quote of Galli. I posted a bit on Galli’s article a couple of weeks ago, finding his statement, "we are not in the evangelical preservation society" to be quite helpful. Much of the discussion in the middle of the bell curve revolves around the preservation of our particular take on Christianity rather than on key issues. Compliance to Scot's point about correctly understanding the position of our discussion partners from their own perspective before we critique them would go a long way to casting more light than the heat that is now too often cast.

By: Andy Rowell

Andy Rowell — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:52:50 +0000

Thanks Chris. I listened to it today.

andy