Results tagged “Emergent Church”

The current craze in contemporary spiritual literature is to embrace a Churchless Christianity. I realize that this is often done out of frustration. But the church that Christ loves is not a supermodel, but rather, a flawed and broken bride. Like Christ, we must regain a love for the church as it really is - warts and all - and not as we imagine it should be. »more

Too often, our attempts to make the faith "cool" are a "sellout to show-business" or a "caricature of culture" - a mere accommodation to a rapidly changing youth culture. Baptizing culture is dangerous because "culture is not the same as Spirit." There’s a difference between "trends" and "transcendence." »more

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Religion is a human attempt to worship and serve God in the context of community. By default, this involves some level of organization and a mutual center (in this case, creeds, rituals, traditions, liturgy, and so on). But the fact that it is a human construct does not detract from its being empowered by God’s Spirit as a channel of God’s grace. »more