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The emergent movement has no such genesis, and no such confessional glue.\u00a0 Within emergent, you\u2019ll find Southern Baptist preachers and lesbian Episcopal priests, Missouri Synod Lutherans and Quakers.\u00a0 For what binds emergents is not unlike what binds Pentecostals \u2013 it\u2019s an ethos, a posture.\u00a0 In fact, I might describe it as a posture of openness to the movement of God\u2019s Spirit in the world.<\/p>\n

Thus, you could walk into a United Methodist Church with the an organist and choir and a minister in alb and stole, and stroll down the street to a Vineyard assembly with a rock band and a preacher wearing shorts, and each could self-identify as emergent.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 What in God\u2019s name do these churches have in common?<\/p>\n

They are, as I said, open to God\u2019s Spirit, moving and active in the world today.\u00a0 In the words of Tim Keel, late of Jacob\u2019s Well Church in Kansas City, \u201cMy job as a pastor is to figure out where God is active in the world and then get my people there, to cooperate with God.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably this idea of \u201ccooperation with God\u201d that makes the young, restless, neoCalvinists particularly uncomfortable, for to them that sounds like an undermining of God\u2019s sovereignty, an implication that God is dependent on human beings \u2013 in fact, to hear those Calvinists, we humans might be a royal pain in God\u2019s backside.<\/p>\n

But contrary to that opinion, I think that emergents share a particular sensibility with Pentecostals: God gratefully and graciously uses us in Kingdom-building work.\u00a0 I think that we talk about it differently \u2013 you\u2019re unlikely to hear too much overt Holy Spirit-talk from emergent; instead, it is usually God-talk, as in the aforementioned quote from Tim Keel.\u00a0 But I do believe that we mean the same thing.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"