I've just started Emerging Churches and it's a great read. I hope the rest of it is like the first chapter. Great offering Andy!!! The first chapter is about culture. Something dawned on me, in the clearest way I've ever thought about it. For modern Christians the world seems to be the same in many respects. "This is a phase, things will be normanl again when these 'emergers' settle down into jobs, families and homes." If the church is your life and you seldom step out of Chrisendom, then the world hasn't changed a whole lot. Now I understand why I hear this disscussion as a generational thing or a fad. They address this issue in culture. I'm done talking about this, becasue I've only read the first chapter tonight and haven't thought much about it. click here to check it out.