The Emergent Church, Community, and Comedy

What more could you ask for?

The Emergent Church, Community, and Comedy.

TeamPyro is really hitting the nail on the head. The book “a generous orthodoxy” by Brian Mclaren has eaten up more of the Church’s time and energy than any bit of nonsense in recent history. At the end of the day, like any heterodox movement in the Church, this one will be measured by its ability to cause the Church to correct itself in whatever way we may be lagging. But the wholesale revision of Christianity into a communitarian, postmodern, aimless, formless goo more likely to inspire mild irritation than the hopeful, mature faith and practice of traditional orthodox evangelical Christianity will not be one of them.

What do these people have to teach us? A great deal about how naive our young people are and how lacking in an understanding of traditional orthodox theology in the light of social change. The frightening part is not the young, who we expect to be impressionable, but how wholly the nonsensicals invaded the seminaries and supposedly Christian colleges in a single generation and depleted the Evangelical gene-pool. The walls are not weak; it’s those that guard the gates.

The old guard evangelicals, it is true, sometimes forgo understandability and relevance in favor of tradition and their preferred social understanding of Christianity, but that is not a problem with Christianity. The truth isn’t changing.

What the whole postmodern experiment amounts to, is not the implied dissatisfaction with the Americanization of Christendom, but a dissatisfaction with Jesus teaching that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, to the exclusion of all others. (He’s so dogmatic sometimes… it drives the weak-kneed religious people crazy.) The Emergents, as forcefully as they try to rub away the edges and blur the distinctions in Theology and Orthodoxy only succeed in making themselves obscurantist purveyors of mass confusion, and since they are quickly becoming an identifiable theological and social school, even by their own standards, they will soon be irrelevant.

“The old is better”

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