I have had conversations with people who try to speak intelligently about “emerging” churches. However, most of them don’t do their homework to find out what “emerging” means. In addition, they have no clue that there is a difference between an “emerging” church and an “emergent” church. Because their knowledge is limited, they would just prefer to lump everyone who doesn’t do church the way they do into one category…emerging. However, that is not fair for the simple reason that there are “emergent” churches out there teaching all sorts of false doctrine and heresy, while there are plenty of Christ-centered, Bible-believing “emerging” churches winning people to Christ in droves.
After doing some research on the topic myself, I found this video from Mark Driscoll. He is Pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington. He does a good job of clarifying the discussion on “emerging” and “emergent” churches.
I find him to be a pretty creditable source on the subject because:
- He calls his church an “emerging” church, thus making him an “emerging” pastor.
- One of his biggest fans is John Piper…someone who would definitely have an issue with someone teaching anything but Orthodox Christian doctrine. Mark is actually speaking at Piper’s upcoming Pastor’s Conference.
Take 7 minutes, watch and learn!
Tags: Emergent Church, Emerging Church, John Piper, Mark Driscoll
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August 20, 2011 at 4:59 pm |
The problem with Driscoll’s analysis of Lane 4 “Emergent Liberals” is that there are those of us who are theologically conservative but who are socially liberal. For instance, I consider myself politically liberal or progressive, but on issues such as gay marriage I do not think it is biblically viable even if the larger society does. But I see no reason to prohibit, however, civil unions–just not calling it marriage. I don’t feel it is appropriate to “lump” a disparate group into the category “liberal” and proceed to “dis” it.
January 26, 2012 at 12:49 am |
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