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I wrote this entry a month ago and then didn't publish it.  A comment was posted on my last entry asking what I think about the Emergent Church movement.  I hope this entry will explain what I think--please forgive that it is quite so long!... ********** Please forgive this first paragraph, but I think it will help you understand where the concerns of my heart have come from... Over the past two weeks or so, I have been reading Deep Church by Jim Belcher.  Last week, I finished up Ashamed of the Gospel by John MacArthur and Intimacy Ignited .  I'm almost done with Prayer Saturated Children and part way through Practical Theology for Women .  Then, yesterday, I opened up Doctrine by Mark Driscoll.  Heavy books.   I am going to set Deep Church down.  I have just a little more of Prayer Saturated Children (which I'm going to go finish after this entry) and then I'm going to step away from Doctrine (after writing a pre-review of i...

Why is it that my generation (I belong to Gen X) and generations after us always seem to think that they know more than the generations that have come before us? Why is there such a lack of respect in our generation for our elders? Why do we think that the liturgy of the church and hymns are irrelevant? It is ironic to me that the emergent movement is saying that the seeker sensitive movement is irrelevant. It seems as if it was only a few years ago when it was the seeker sensitive movement that said to the traditional church that it (the traditional church) was irrelevant. I'm reading a book with all of these big words and I want to be honest--I didn't understand a lot of it. I'm not dumb. I understood most of it, but the author was assuming a lot of background knowledge on the part of the reader. Most of the time I learn deep theological concepts and then I have to store them in my "attic" (as Autumn would say) because there isn't enough room in the ...