emergent

I imagine an emergent (notice all these group titles are not capitalized; it’s not a mistake) would want to have a conversation. They would want all the details. Who, what, when, where and why. Then they’d push to make me think even more, reminding me that life is all about experiences.

I tried to write out an imagined conversation, but I felt that everything I wrote would be really unfair. And I think emergents would like that. Emergents claim to be complex, to operate on a third level (see “A New Kind of Christian” by Brian McClaren). There are, however, key elements I believe would be in this type of conversation.

1.  Jesus was about relationships. He loved people, and showed this through relationships.
2. Each part of the situation needs to be taken down and analyzed. It must be asked if each thing is really as it seems. For example, is the problem the tension, or is there something else.
3. It must be questioned if what we’ve been taught from the bible is really what we need to be doing. This is not questioning if the bible is correct, only if it’s been taught correctly throughout time.

The conversation would most likely end with an encouragement to keep my head up. I could always come back and have another conversation if I needed to…

 

 

~ by colbystream on May 8, 2008.