I am sitting in the airport heading back from a long day of teaching and conversation yesterday and the Evangelical Free Church Midwinter Ministerial. I was the guest presenter and the topic was, "Insights from Emerging Church Ministries and An Evaluation of Emergent Church Theology."
I will also be posting some of the documents I mentioned here at the blog.
I think it was a good day. My hosts had told me that many were coming "loaded" on the topic, but I think we ended with better understanding and clearer communication.
At one point, I had those who would consider themselves "emerging" raise their hands. I think the attendees were surprised at how many indicated they were.
I asked the emerging folk if they felt the presentation was fair and accurate and they indicated it was. (That is important to me because I think there are a lot of 9th commandment issues out there related to the Emerging Church.)
But, I am also a conservative evangelical missiologist, and I think that came through in the talks.
At the end of the day, I think we left with better understanding and God was honored in honesty, humility, and dialogue. We will post the audio soon.
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