Greetings from the Dirty South
Thanks for the invite Randy. I'm looking forward to this conversation, as well as getting to know everyone! My name is Andy, and I pastor in a po-dunk church in Alabama. I have been a part of the Emergent/Postmodern/Post-Evangelical/Post-Reformation/Post-toasties, whatever you want to call it Conversation for about 7 years now. I have been in the Church of God my whole dang life, so any opportunity to listen and contribute to ThinkTanking and blending 2 very different worlds (the CHOG Ref. Movement and the Emerging Church Movement) I am all for it!
If I could, I would like to offer up 2 things. The first is a chunk of resources - I spend a lot of time reading (paper and screen) and I try to absorb as much as I can on the emergent movement. If you would like to tap in to a bunch of emergent blogs try the following:
http://www.planetemergent.org (every Emergent blog post you can think of)
http://www.bloglines.com/public/shoogerbear (my own emergent blog readings)
http://andrewdailey.typepad.com/ (my personal blog)
Second, I would like to ask a question. Where do you see the Church of God headed, what course or path is our church movement taking? If you have a definitive answer to that, I would be surprised and happy to hear it. If you have a worriesome and yet somewhat cynical answer, then I wouldn't be surprised and would count you as a close brother or sister.
Oh and one last thing. This April, a book was released by D. A. Carson called "Being Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications"
This is a pretty sharp attack on the Emerging Church. To read more about it go here
Anyone else been attacked for doing church in a different way?
be God's
If I could, I would like to offer up 2 things. The first is a chunk of resources - I spend a lot of time reading (paper and screen) and I try to absorb as much as I can on the emergent movement. If you would like to tap in to a bunch of emergent blogs try the following:
http://www.planetemergent.org (every Emergent blog post you can think of)
http://www.bloglines.com/public/shoogerbear (my own emergent blog readings)
http://andrewdailey.typepad.com/ (my personal blog)
Second, I would like to ask a question. Where do you see the Church of God headed, what course or path is our church movement taking? If you have a definitive answer to that, I would be surprised and happy to hear it. If you have a worriesome and yet somewhat cynical answer, then I wouldn't be surprised and would count you as a close brother or sister.
Oh and one last thing. This April, a book was released by D. A. Carson called "Being Conversant with the Emerging Church: Understanding a Movement and Its Implications"
This is a pretty sharp attack on the Emerging Church. To read more about it go here
Anyone else been attacked for doing church in a different way?
be God's
Posted By Andy | |
Permalink 
ooie, ouchie, the aarows do fly at, seemingly, anyone that seeks to change how we do what we do.
i sometimes forget that the people that are in church aren't reading the same things i am and therefor don't have the same understanding i do of what i see happening [culture, church, people & how they learn, etc.].
as far as the cog goes - i too am a lifer and am hopeful that the cog can, through conversations like this one, begin to lead instead of constatntly follow a far pace behind. no, our track record isn't good on leading in areas of change, but i can hope can't i?!
i really think that the kind of change we're talking about is a very indigenious/local deal. this isn't the kind of top down leadership issue that maybe we're used to. it's a grassroots movement. so, having stated the obvious [i think we would all cop to that being obvious], if the grass makes enough noise [lives changed and the church come out of its slide into oblivion] maybe the leadership sees the implication.
i really think the change is not programatic but attitudinal.
are we willing to have 'the way we've always done it' challenged?
-welcome to the conversation andy & thanks for the web sites!!
Posted by
nathan |
12:05 PM