Church Voices

During one of our gatherings one of our elders asked if anyone would like to share any of their favorite verses. One guy stood up and said the (pretty close) to the following:

As we were sitting here I recalled the passage in Isaiah which says “come let us reason together”, as we go about our day we carry out the great commission in conversations in our everyday life

Boy that’s awfully missional. It was spoken by a guy approaching his 60s, who was raised in a very traditional church in what is usually seen as a traditional non-denominational denomination.

Later this week I’m going to post an interview I did with Virgil Vaduva, in our post-interview conversation he told me that a minister that he is very close to made the comment to him that emerging/emergent had already been done 150 years ago in that same non-demoninational denomination.

Many of the emerging/emergent ideas that are viewed as controversial by outspoken critics are simply gems of the past re-discovered by the church. So much so, that when I’ve stripped out names of authors and buzzwords from many of these ideas and presented them to people who were raised in traditional churches there’s very little disagreement.