It's important to get an idea of where leaders like Brian McLaren in the emerging church movement are coming from so you can identify the confusion, ambiguity, and unbiblical perspectives of such leaders. Take some time to read through these quotes from Brian...
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Emerging Church Movement
Reimagining Christianity, by Alan Jones
The Emerging Church movement is varied and fluid. There are those who hold to orthodoxy and those who don't. So, we need to read the material from Emerging Church pastors and learn what they teach. One such person is Alan Jones, the dean of Grace Cathedral in San...
The Emerging Church and Postmodernism
Postmodernism is not that simple to define because it is a word used in different areas of study: art, film, architecture, literature, religion, truth, etc. The term "postmodernism" can best be understood by relating it to modernism. Modernism came out of the 1800s...
What is the Emerging Church?
The Emerging Church is a movement that claims to be Christian. The term 'Emerging Church' is used to describe a broad, controversial movement that seeks to use culturally sensitive approaches to reach the postmodern, un-churched population with the Christian...
Emerging Church Terminology
One of the problems with trying to understand some of the writers and teachers in the Emerging Church movement is deciphering what they mean by various terms. They use phrases such as... Becoming - the transformation from the modern to the postmodern, emerging view of...
Musings about the Emerging Church
Unfortunately, my journey through research and writing about the Emerging Church has taken a long time, perhaps, longer than any project I've undertaken with CARM. The delays have been mostly due to traveling, a little burnout, and CARM maintenance -- not to mention...
About CARM’s section on the emerging church
There are good and bad things in the emerging church movement. Not all emerging church pastors are the same. In fact, some of them contradict each other on a variety of issues. You might have one emerging church pastor say you don't need to believe in the...
Please read this first about the Emerging Church
The Emerging Church movement is controversial, and CARM does not approve or disapprove of it as a whole. There is so much diversity within it that it cannot be labeled as all good or all bad. There is no official, single doctrinal statement from "The Emerging Church"...
Karen Ward of the Church of the Apostles, Seattle, WA
On June 9th, 2007, Saturday, a friend of mine, Ryan, and I attended the Church of the Apostles in Seattle, Washington. The pastor of that church, a woman named Karen Ward, had been in email contact with me for a week or two. I told her I was doing research, planned...
Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church, Seattle, WA
Updated: Previously I had recommended Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle Washington. CARM had an article on him with the overall approval. However, Mark Driscoll was removed from the pastorate by the eldership of his church for reasons which...