“You can be young, passionate about Jesus Christ, surrounded by diversity, engaged in a postmodern world, reared in evangelicalism and not be an emergent Christian. In fact, I want to argue that it would be better if you weren’t.”Some of you may be asking, "What is the emergent church?" Others of you may be interacting with emergent Christians every day. The emergent church is a strong voice in today’s Christian community. And they’re talking about good things: caring for the poor, peace for all men, loving Jesus. They’re doing church a new way, not content to fit the mold. Again, all good. But there’s more to the movement than that. Much more.
The Returning Church has invited Rev. Kevin DeYoung (University RCA, East Lansing, MI) to speak the evening of THURSDAY, MARCH 26 (preceding the PCRT Conference in Grand Rapids area) at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium of Calvin Theological Seminary. Watch for more details to come. Seating is first-come, first-served.
Kevin and Ted are two guys who, demographically, should be all over the emergent church movement. But they’re not. They've co-authored a book called "Why We’re Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be)." They also have a web-site: http://www.notemergent.com/. Check that out for more information. We hope to see you there - and your young people. This event will be especially applicable for the younger generations - but something we all need to be aware of.
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Wow, this looks great! I'll be back in Grand Rapids by the beginning of March, so I'd like to attend.
I'm glad to see that you are having Kevin DeYoung speak. It would be great if The Returning Church could learn from the renewal group Kevin is involved with - RCA Integrity (integrityrca.org). Many of the concerns are joint ones. I could wish you could work on a unified response to the Belhar Confession that is being promoted in both denominations, for example. Maybe there could be some organizational umbrella within the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. Just some thoughts from someone on the "periphery" (far from the Dutch-American-Reformed heartland :)
Dave in suburban Seattle
You might want to check out the latest posting on CRConnect (http://www.crconnect.blogspot.com/) on "Four Lanes on the Emerging Church Highway" - including Emerging Reformers. Dave in Kent, WA
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