Emergent Church Critique
Friday, February 16th, 2007[this had a broken link that should now be fixed]Â
Some of you may be wondering what kind of stuff I am studying in seminary. Here is one of the papers that I did for my last class. [Emergent Church Critique] Few of you may have heard of this movement, but the Emerging Church is probably a great deal more influential than you realize. The larger question is: how can we reach the next generation? This movement is trying to do that - not necesarily in a biblical way - but I think we can learn from them and the questions they are asking. It is a very liberal movement that we need to be aware of in church life. Magazines like Christianity Today are featuring authors and articles about this movement. At best, you can read my paper to help you go to sleep at night. 
Correction (2/16/07): I don’t want to be guilty of stereotyping all emergents of having the same theological beliefs. My study was focused on Emergent Village. Unfortunately what happens among conservatives is that we tend to use a “guilty by association” mentality. Having said that, you will see in my paper that there are some concerns about how emergents often approach biblical interpretation from a postmodern perspective that can open them up to misinterpretation. The best article I have seen from an emergent perspective that looks critically at emergent is Scot McKnight in “Five Streams of the Emerging Church,” in Christianity Today.
