Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The Emergent Movement; we are so in with the times we are Protestant, post-Protestant, evangelical, post-evangelical, liberal, post-liberal, conservative, post-conservative, anabaptist, adventist, reformed, charismatic, neocharismatic, and post-charismatic.

The Emergence Movement is a recent (post 1970's) movement lead by America's young libertarian Christians. (and yes the title of this post is what they title themselves as) The Emergence Movement is in multiple countries and even continents today; North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. Using a postmodern viewpoint the emphasis is driven away from the Bible and more toward the fellowship and the society around the "church" (I put quotation marks because it's mostly a house meeting or a gathering) I am not going to describe a typical Emergent Church, because they don't have an exact definition, the society around them or the group's own traditions is what defines their own church.
The Emergence Movement beliefs range from a Trinitarian based values; imitating the life of Jesus, transforming society, emphasizing communal living, and to lead without control to Post-Christendom, where the focus is on good works and social activism. In theory this idea is more of a Christian Communism (the good kind, not the red commies or anything) but is misleading with their teachings. So in closing, interesting concept, wrong values.

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