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Jul 7, 2004 Print This Post

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I just read this bit from Anna Aven and it reflected one angle of what I have been thinking about lately. Thoughts?

I feel as though the soil that the emerging church is being planted in is in many ways theologically barren. It�s full of cute ideas and relevant liturgies, but are we actually connecting the lost with the saving message of Jesus? It�s one thing to get people who don�t go to church into our doors because we�re doing a movie talk, but where do they get connected to the saving message of the gospel? When does it happen? Because I�m seeing far more complaints about the institutional church coming out then actual ecclesiological approaches for why we�re doing what we�re doing. A lot of times I think that what the emerging church actually came from was a bunch of Christians who were bored with the institutional church and decided to up and do something different. Which is fine. How we �do� church isn�t really important so long as it serves the Biblical function of church. What is the Biblical function of church? Good question.