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cohort meeting this thursday: the emerging church as reform movement

Started by markvans · 10 months ago

The Twin Cities Emergent Cohort will meet on Thursday, November 16th at 12 noon at the Acadia Cafe.
For this month’s meeting, we will discuss what it is that the “emerging” church hopes to reform and how we can lead people to see the need for these reforms. ... Continue reading »

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  • fargo john

    2 years ago

    i'm missing you in the most manly way possible right now.
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  • Van S

    2 years ago

    Hmmm...what is the most manly way possible? Is that missing me while eating beef jerky and drinking scotch while smoking a pipe?
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  • JVD

    2 years ago

    Will there be any discussion of what emergent can do to be constructive?
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  • Van S

    2 years ago

    Yes, I'd certainly hope so. I don't know many emerging church leaders who are still in the "I'm pissed off and want to deconstruct the church" phase, so I'd imagine there will be a balance of deconstruction and construction going on.

    An example of a reform is the way that the emerging church has challenged mainstream evangelicals to care about social justice. There is both a challenge and a call to action within this sort of reform. However, many church folks see issues like the environment, worker rights, etc. as secondary issues. The emerging church is more likely to see them as essential issues. So the question is, how can emerging leaders help folks see the need for change? Other issues could be how one understands the Gospel, how one "does" evangelism, and how one engages culture.
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