Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on the Emerging Church
“What do you hope will ultimately emerge from the emerging church conversation for evangelicals?”
A 9News Pastor’s and Theologian’s Forum
Answers from
D. A. Carson
Mark Driscoll
Michael Horton
Mike McKinley
Daniel Montgomery
Brent Thomas
Carl Trueman
Jonathan Leeman
D. A. Carson
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What in the World is the Missional Church?
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Talk about being behind the curve.
Several months ago, I began noticing how often the words "missional church" kept showing up in evangelical books and blogs. Reading up on the topic since then has left me feeling a bit like Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving’s colonial American character who dozed off one afternoon as a loyal subject of King George III, only to wake up twenty years later and find that he had a foot long beard and that something called the Revolutionary War had been fought.
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Putting Contextualization in its Place
Contextualization is one of the hottest topics in missions today. Simply put, contextualization is the word we use for the process of making the gospel and the church as much at home as possible in a given cultural context.
American Christians have a tendency to think of contextualization as something missionaries and overseas Christians do "over there," and then they worry about how far non-Western churches go in their contextualization efforts. However, every Christian alive today is actively involved in contextualization.
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Contemplating Cool
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Show me a grown man with a goatee and I’ll show you a major league baseball player. Show me a grown man with a goatee wearing sandals and I’ll show you a youth pastor.
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Contextualizing the Gospel in an Egalitarian World
Recently at lunch, a friend and I were discussing how to best proclaim the Christian message of the gospel among America’s diverse sub-cultures and generational divides. (Sometimes I wonder if we’re all beating questions of contextualization and relevance to death. But the rate of technological change and the ever-shrinking globe must mean they will continue to become more pertinent.)
FORGIVENESS, FULFILLMENT, OR FREEDOM?
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An Emerging Church Primer
Some of you may be called to be experts on the emerging church. We need experts. But I'm not that expert. And perhaps it's good for you that I'm not. In conservative evangelical circles, we can be tempted to listen to experts so that we can hear the person's conclusions: "Just tell me what to think—don't bother me with how you got there." We want the Cliff Notes on the emerging church. We want to read the cast of characters—"this guy's a wolf, that guy's a sheep," and so on.
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