If you watch this blog you may notice one or two guest blogs from time to time. My mate David will be one of these. He has just made his debut posting about the emerging church. He has a habit of making me think about things and express opinions by asking akward questions. Thanks David I love it, keep at it!
Well, on emerging church my views are emerging! No seriously, I am sure that like any movement in the church we can learn from it. However, if emerging church means not meeting as a gathered community to sing worship to God, excercise spiritual gifts, build a mission community which also cares for each other, and most of all is built on the foundation of the word preached, then I want nothing to do with it! Of course emerging church doesn’t mean that to everyone involved with it, and I might be errecting a straw man.
Like many in the emerging church movement, I am rather dismissive of what we could call the vannishing church. I think that within a generation many of our longstanding demoninations (missspelling accidenctal?-ed) will have folded.
God will restore his church, but it will nonetheless BE a church that emerges, of that I am sure.
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