What type of Emergent Church are You?

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 7, 2006 in Church, Culture | 5 comments

Ed Stetzer (part of Acts 29) wrote an article, FIRST-PERSON: Understanding the emerging church that classifies 3 types of people in the Emerging church movement:

Relevants- A group whose focus is to make their worship, music and outreach more contextual to emerging culture.

Reconstructionists- The reconstructionists think that the current form of church is frequently irrelevant and the structure is unhelpful. Yet, they typically hold to a more orthodox view of the Gospel and Scripture. Therefore, we see an increase in models of church that reject certain organizational models, embracing what are often called “incarnational” or “house” models. They are responding to the fact that after decades of trying fresh ideas in innovative churches, North America is less churched, and those that are churched are less committed.

Revisionists- Revisionists are questioning (and in some cases denying) issues like the nature of the substitutionary atonement, the reality of hell, the complementarian nature of gender, and the nature of the Gospel itself.

Related Reading: I wrote an article dealing with some of these things two years ago, Tension in the Emerging Church.

Planting a Church in San Diego

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 6, 2006 in Church | 1 comment

Man, I’ve got to admit San Diego is crazy. Today is supposed to be 83 DEGREES! I’m heading to the beach with my family in a tshirt/shorts/flip-flops to go enjoy the weather for a few hours.

God is good!

National Magazine seeks Non-Christians to visit a church

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 4, 2006 in Church, Culture | 0 comments

A National Magazine seeks to enlist 6-8 non-Christians across the United States to visit a church and respond/comment on a set of questions.

Any non-Christians interested in doing this? Post a comment with email….

Leadership Development and Organization Development

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Jan 4, 2006 in Church, Church Technology | 0 comments

Free library of articles and resources on a variety of areas of leadership, management and building organizations. (both non-profit and for-profit articles). Second, here is a link to Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Drucker Foundation) which also has free articles and resources.

Too Reformed vs. Extreme Emergent

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Dec 31, 2005 in Church | 3 comments

A great post over at Ochuk’s blog that he grabbed from Purgatorio.

The a little too Reformed vs. extreme Emergent

You might be Emgerging if…

your worship service looks like:

Prayer Labyrinth

you are listening to:

Emergents Like Bono

You have to look at these pics twice because it might be you:

You might be Getting a little TOO Reformed if…

Someone tells you they go to:

and you think they’re going:

You hear a news story about some criminals being “reformed” and your first thought is to wonder how many criminals are arminians.

On at least 4 different blogs, you end up in extended wars with arminians arguing about God’s Sovereignty. Your final comment always being a variation of:

You’re looking under your big kid’s bed and find:

and you are way more upset then the time you found: