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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The Emerging Consequences of Whose Ideas?
With contributions below from Gregg Allison, Micah Carter, J. Ligon Duncan, Keith Goad, Jim Hamilton, Jonathan Leeman, and Stephen Wellum.
Maybe you have heard plenty about the popularizers. After all, their shows are selling out. Their books are conquering the best-seller lists. And every weblog, magazine, and e- newsletter in the biz is talking about them.
But where are these Emergent guys getting this stuff? Where do their ideas come from?
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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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Brian McLaren and the Gospel of Here & Now
By Greg Gilbert
In Brian McLaren’s book New Kind of Christian, the wise, penetrating, and affably Jamaican "Neo" says to his younger, less enlightened protégé: "OK, you asked for it. Dan, I don’t think that most Christians have any idea what the gospel really is" (105)
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