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October 22, 2004
"Weak is the New Strong" (A little weekend reading for y'all...)
There’s a new article up at Christianity Today called “The Emergent Mystique,” by our friend Andy Crouch:
Like all labels, this one conceals as much as it reveals. But the phrase “emerging church” captures several important features of a new generation of churches. They are works in progress, often startlingly improvisational in their approach to everything from worship to leadership to preaching to prayer. Like their own members, they live in the half-future tense of the young, oriented toward their promise rather than their past. But if their own focus is on what they are “emerging” toward, perhaps most surprising are the places they are emerging from.Check it out.
(Link via Darryl Dash.)
You can read about some of my own experience with Andy Crouch here.
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Comments (9):
Interesting article. I am cautious to name and claim any kind of movement. Only time will tell. Best to live well and name things after they have happened.
real live preacher () - October 23, 2004 at 11:15 am
RLP reminds me of my experience as a Jesus freak in the early 70s. If I’m remembering correctly (and I think I am), those of us who were a part of it didn’t know we were in the “Jesus People Movement” until it was nearly history! We just knew that God was doing something because He’d done it in us, so we banded together. Those would have been wonderful, authentic times even if they’d failed to result in a “movement.”
An editor from the family of CT magazines stayed in our home this weekend, and pointed us to this article, Tim. Doug and I read it this morning and learned a lot. Thanks!
An editor from the family of CT magazines stayed in our home this weekend, and pointed us to this article, Tim. Doug and I read it this morning and learned a lot. Thanks!
Katy Raymond () (URL) - October 24, 2004 at 12:24 pm
Thanks for your comments, guys. I agree whole-heartedly with what you say, but struggle with the fact that someone ( http://www.emergentvillage.org ) went and named this “movement” before it ever got started. So, in reality, while I wish the label wasn’t in place, it is — this makes for some ugly preconceived notions, but also makes it a whole lot easier to talk about! 
In any case, I wrote a little something about labels at the beginning of the year:
http://www.sense-datum.org/tim/archives/2004/01/01/10.40.36/
(Though it’s not the end-all-be-all of course!)
In any case, I wrote a little something about labels at the beginning of the year:
http://www.sense-datum.org/tim/archives/2004/01/01/10.40.36/
(Though it’s not the end-all-be-all of course!)
timsamoff () (URL) - October 25, 2004 at 12:02 am
rob bell is a good dude
Zach Lind () - October 26, 2004 at 02:09 am
Rob Bell the baseball player? Sorry, Zach… I missing the reference.
timsamoff () (URL) - October 26, 2004 at 08:57 am
No offense – REALLY but Rob Bell looks like the ANTICHRIST!!!!!!
chuck helmut () - January 13, 2005 at 2:09 pm
rob bell, the one mentioned in the article, is the one i reference. i guess i’m not clear as to whether LOOKING like the antichrist is a bad or good thing.
Zach () (URL) - January 13, 2005 at 4:08 pm
Hehe… Yeah, I probably LOOK like the antichrist most mornings anyway. 
timsamoff () (URL) - January 13, 2005 at 4:13 pm
you would expect that a pretty face could be more deceitful.. someone handsome and charming… yup, looks like i could pass for the anti-christ, too.
Dennisthemenace () - January 14, 2005 at 10:09 am
