If you feel you might be Neo-Emergent, leave a comment below with your blog or twitter link and a comment. What makes you Neo-?
Just a short note… take longer discussions to your blogs & social media — and keep it going!
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February 16th, 2010 at 12:26 am
I wrote a post on this called A New Kind of Conversation: Why I Might be Neo-Emergent which deals with these issues in more depth. I think perhaps I’ve always been Neo-Emerging… or for at least as long as I’ve been post-evangelical.
February 16th, 2010 at 11:02 am
I’m taking these concepts from your blog post and seeing where I line up … just because … well … just because.
ec/EV on sin – denies original sin and the concept of sin in general
Me – haven’t made a stand on original sin, but sin in general? Yes. There is such a thing and we all engage in it liberally. That’s why we have Jeeeesus.
ec/EVdoesn’t hold the Bible as fully authoritative (or inspired, really)
Me – I’m not a literalist at. all. I see the Bible as authoritative and inspired … but NOT literally true.
ec/EV denies hell, doesn’t fully articulate a model for atonement (as long as it isn’t penal substitution)
Me – still working this one out, but I would probably fall near Linda (blogger formerly known as Grace) on the spectrum.
ec/EV is panentheistic
Me – I see evidence of God in all things, but I do not actually see God in all things – small but mighty difference.
ec/EV – cannot affirm the traditional creeds
Me – love the Nicene Creed (especially) and do regularly affirm it for myself.
So … I guess all of that makes me Neo-Emerging/Missional-Right …
or ….
WTF (WednesdayThursdayFriday)
But does it mean I can use the blog badge? And … will I want to? Or … at some point in the future will someone yell at me for questioning the theology behind it? Or … will brussels sprouts be the ordained vegetable?
Cookies, anyone?
February 16th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Was Neo a Neo-Emergent?
February 16th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Okay, I guess I’ll jump in. As it reflects a bit where I’m coming from, which I’ve discussed a fair amount on my blog recently.
Though, I don’t think I’m entirely comfortable with neo-. I think I’m instinctively emerging, arising from proto-emerging churches, participated in emerging, and now want to fight for what is represented here as being still the core of emerging itself.
Of course, I still am fighting to hold onto the term Evangelical too. I think I tend to hold onto the original core meanings, even if the later term has taken on different impressions.
February 16th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
The Abbess stands with Bro M on this one….
February 17th, 2010 at 7:31 am
Let’s put it this way … I’ll “join a church” when I can find one where people aren’t constantly putting hoops to jump through, random idiotic litmus tests based on private spontaneous idiotic eisegetical apoplectic seizures of self-righteousness, and legalistic shibboleths to block my way and then standing over me with a rack, stake, and witch’s mark probe when their traps and snares and stumbling blocks have caused me to, gee, guess what, fall flat on my face and PROVE!!! that i’m ……… human, like them? what? what IS it they are trying to prove? that Christ didn’t save me because i don’t walk & talk & dress & act exactly like them? what a crock of shit. there is nothing more spiritually abusive & psychologically damaging in this world than turning faith in Christ into a frackin’ holier-than-thou conformity club and taking someone who has been delivered from 26 years of being owned, operated, inhabited and controlled by demons FOR LESS THAN TWO MONTHS and trying to basically throw them back to Satan because they haven’t joined the reindeer games. SCREW this crap!! And that’s JUST on the INTERNET … if that’s how invasive and abusive ppl get on the INTERNET then you can be DAMN sure i’m not gonna stick my neck out to make 3-d contacts who will be even MORE invasive and abusive for having even STRONGER access to me. Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour and Master and if anyone doesn’t like it, or doesn’t like me, then they will have to take it up with HIM because it’s their OWN selves they are de-grafting from the vine, not me. I’m HIS. And they will have to spend eternity with me if they want to be with Him … TOUGH LUCK!!!!!!
February 17th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Probably. What makes me so? Perhaps it’s that I’m tired of talking about it. After a while, as a thing matures, we live it instead of talking so much about it. Like marriage, or kids, or a new job or fill in the blank. My version of emergence is working itself out and I don’t need the affirmation I did a few years ago. I certainly don’t need to argue about it. Pity.