Emergent Nazarenes: Deep Church: Reflection #1 - Emergents Like to Protest

Emergent Nazarenes: Deep Church: Reflection #1 - Emergents Like to Protest
PREDICATE PARADOX
http://ole-ship.blogspot.com/2009/10/vailed-and-hailed.html

VAILED AND HAILED

"Did you mean ..."

what does it matter what is vailed or hailed if something else is meant?

The answer...

Thats it, The ANSWER is what matters.
Well, that line came from my last google seach result that asked above the first result, "Did you mean..." .
Ole_ship Nazarite

Search terms Nazarite, Nazerite, Nazarene, Nazerene
Well, I mispelled it, but I landed somewhere on an interesting note to this topic, and not without a note to the regaurd it has to this topic (VAILED AND HAILED).

tHE WEBSITE i SURFED And almost commented there, but I reserved that for later, and after vmore of my own studies , , the outline they posed on this topic TITLE is linked

Deep Church: Reflection #1 - Emergents Like to Protest {from Wednesday, October 14, 2009}

7 areas he finds consistent voices of protest within emergent circles.Here are the protests he identifies with a very brief and limited clarifying comment below each.

1) Captivity to Enlightenment RationalismThis boils down to a belief that the church has been imprisoned by rationalist philosophies that essential removes revelation from the way we know truth. This has found itself rooted in how we try to defend the church, defend scripture, and explain our faith.

2) A narrow view of salvationEssentially emergents believe that the church has focused too much on justification and not enough on sanctification. There has been an over emphasis on becoming a Christian and not enough on living like a Christian.

3) Belief before belongingThis is a criticism of a traditional practice requiring people to have right doctrine before they are accepted into the body of the church. Doctrine is the gatekeeper for community.

4) Uncontextualized WorshipWorship has been too far removed from the culture of the people who are worshiping and instead it is preserving a culture of a different day and age that is increasingly irrelevant. This is a critique of using worship music, prayers, and liturgy that was all birthed from a one time relevant cultural place, but that time has long since passed.

5) Ineffective PreachingThe pastor as the fount of all knowledge has reduced spiritual formation to head knowledge and has removed people from lending their voice and their experience to the proclamation of scripture


6) Weak ecclesiologyEcclesiology is the study of how church is structured and how church functions. Traditional church top down structures and unadapting methodology has effected its missional effectiveness.


7) TribalismThe traditional church has has shied away from its responsibility to go out and to engage the world and to truly bring the Gospel to the world. This engagement with culture has resulted in the church being known more for what it is against that what it is for. We have lost the ability to be countercultural and to create better culture.
So this is where our conversation will begin with Deep Church. Are these fair assessments of the Emerging Church? Are these fair critiques of the Traditional Church? Does any of them resonate with your own protesters heart?