Comments on: The Emerging Church

By: Sue Phillips

Sue Phillips — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:52:10 +0000

God is neither emerging or emergent. God does not change. Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God is already here in the person of the Holy Spirit living in us. It is the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin, righteous, and judgement. What is our part as His followers? To be obedient to His Word. We are to Go and Preach the Gospel to our culture, or the lost, all around us. See Romans 10:13-21. Faith, still and forever, will come by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. It is really rather simple. We need to “Just do it” no matter what the consequences or the cost. If something works has never been, nor should ever be, the criteria for what we as followers of Jesus Christ do. That is God’s business. The prophets did not stop speaking the Lord’s Word because no one was listening or repenting. They were obedient to do what God told them to do according to God’s game plan. They did not attempt to come up with a new one because that was not working. The only real question is “Have we gone out and told anyone about Jesus Christ and bid them to repent, surrender their lives and follow Him today?”

Thanks for sharing and the opportunity to share!
Sue

By: RevJeff

RevJeff — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:42:17 +0000

Good summary !

And Except for those who want to play on the fringe by symanttically differentiating between emerging (which literally means “coming or arriving”) and emergent who are those (who came or arrived too far)… I don’t see how folks can disagree with what Driscoll said. I’m not one to jump into the whole Driscoll vs whomever thing, but his message and your questions and applicatyions are challenging and worth the LONG listen…

Good Blog. Glad I stopped by.

By: Matt Schrock

Matt Schrock — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:34:42 +0000

You don’t know me, but I found you by way of my old friend Bill Allison and “Cup o’joe” Just wanted to say good questions and it gives me hope for our generation of ministers. (Ok, I’m almost 30, but I’m going kicking and screaming so I’m claiming to be at the early part of your generation and not old enough to be in mine. ) Anyway, I’d love to hear any answers you’ve come up with to your questions. God bless.

- Matt

By: David

David — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:28:29 +0000

Jordan,
By my reading of your entry I am not sure if you are commingling the terms emerging and emergent (many people do this).

In my understanding “emerging” refers to the broader, larger category which I think you are referring to and the term “emergent” is a narrower term referring more specifically to the organization Emergent Village and people associated like Brian Mclaren.

Justin Taylor has a series of entries on his blog on emerging which also helpfully distinguishes these terms. The first entry in the series can be found here: http://theologica.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-is-emerging-church-movement-part.html