tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32299137558941608032011-04-21T13:47:55.262-05:00(some notes on an emergent experiment)Thinkpilerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292333986021738582noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3229913755894160803.post-11209915333885164192009-05-03T12:07:00.008-05:002009-05-03T21:54:13.560-05:00

For my whole Christian life, I've been bugged by the discrepancy between the wild, crazy, revolutionary, turn-your-world-upside-down words in the Bible, and the staid complacent traditionalism of so many of the Christians around me. Even well-meaning, sincerely nice Christians can seem much more interested in preserving their own way of looking at things than in seeing something new that God

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The word “emergent” is on a lot of Christian lips and book covers these days (though notably not all). The first time I can remember hearing it was around 2000 in, contrary to the images the word conjures up to me now, a sermon in a very large mainstream Southern Baptist church in San Antonio, Texas (Yes, I said Southern Baptist). The preacher was George Harris, one-time president of the Southern

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