ABC News: The Emerging Church
When I first discovered the Emerging church 6 months ago I thought I have to get out of my church and into one of these. In the months since then I have decided to continue worship at my current church and be an influence for missional ideas within the the institutional structure I have grown up in.
The people at ABC, in the typical vain of sensational journalism, seem to feel this will be impossible with an impedending war between the two ecclesiolgies. I certainly hope that the power of the love of God can avoid this confrontation.
I have found the "pearl of great price" in missional living.
interesting Kevin...
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing it. I too am still in my church trying to be an influence from the inside...some days I am encouraged, somedays I am frustrated, sometimes I'm seen as a troublemaker or a bit of a rebel. I don't like that label. I'm not sure what I'll do when the frustration continuously outweighs the encouraging....
I feel almost identical to you. There are days it is so frustrating I want to walk away... Then there are glimpses like the response I got from my sermon Sunday, where still yesterday people were calling on the phone to say how much they related to and were impacted by the message.
ReplyDeleteI know that if people are impacted by these messages, then things are changing.