I'm almost finished reading "Emerging Churches" by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger. I recommend it for any who want to be conversant with emerging churches. It is disturbing (to a 58 year old) and yet instructive, prophetic and, I find, encouraging. I want to reflect more upon what I have found within its pages.
Living a life with Jesus, and living that life 'on the Way' with others in a messy, profoundly altered world is my passion and goal, though I confess I'm too easily distracted and diverted by my own too self-centred motives, passions and fears.
Emergents are on to something. I want to learn from them. They are struggling to receive, enter into and live the gift of God's Presence and Reign (the Kingdom).
With many of them, I too am profoundly upset with what purports to be the answers we too quickly 'share' - in our still-modern, contemporary attempts to live out the Good News and in that life Jesus called 'abundant' - when our world has moved beyond being simply 'modern.'
I want to journey with those who, in Len Sweet's words, want to move away from or beyond mere 'answers' to the 'mysteries' - into the Mystery.
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