Sorry for being gone for so long. It's been a pretty wild 8 months or so, and I'm still recovering in a lot of ways. It would be cool to post more often, but I don't make any promises!
So yeah, I told you I like these online quizzes. You should take it and tell me what you get. When a co-worker sent an email with the subject "So you might be Emergent if..." and I scored just about every single one (except I don't own a Mac, which it claimed to be a sign of Emergent-ness?!?), I thought I would take a quiz to see how complete the transformation has been. I found this test (see the next post for the results), which was pretty interesting and scored pretty high on both the Postmodern and Evangelical, which is pretty much not surprising at all.
I don't really like using the term "Emergent", because I don't really even know what it means, and neither does just about anyone I know (except for Chris, who suggests that we start an Emergent church together almost every time I see him after the Mill! He also just left for Burundi for 6 weeks to serve the people in one of the world's poorest countries (if not THE poorest) and you should check out his blog and team blog to follow their stories). Anyway, the term to me has so much confusion associated with it and doesn't help to explain what you really believe or value. The other downside is that it is already in danger of being hijacked to become the next big thing in western Christianity, so any good and transformative things God might want to do would be lost in the hype. We also don't need one more wall to divide the body of Christ up between who is in and who is out, who is a real follower of Jesus and who is not.
In other news, I have been reading Brian McLaren's "A Generous Orthodoxy", and have really been loving it. Maybe sometime I'll post some ideas and thoughts from the book. Definitely worth the read, and considering what I've heard about McLaren, it is surprisingly tame. Maybe he is really a pretty humble believer who truly wants to follow Jesus and not a heretical monster like some people claim...
Monday, May 19, 2008
Another quiz
What's your theological worldview? created with QuizFarm.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| You scored as Emergent/Postmodern You are Emergent/Postmodern in your theology. You feel alienated from older forms of church, you don't think they connect to modern culture very well. No one knows the whole truth about God, and we have much to learn from each other, and so learning takes place in dialogue. Evangelism should take place in relationships rather than through crusades and altar-calls. People are interested in spirituality and want to ask questions, so the church should help them to do this.
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