A personal note:

I know somebody who has gotten ensnared in the "Emergent Church" movement, a la Brian MacLaren. Yes, I said ensnared. He's one of the countless 20-somethings dissatisfied by the fluff the evangelical church had been selling its soul to peddle for the past several decades, yet who himself has capitulated thoroughly to the mindset of postmodernism (which the evangelical church has ironically been trying to accomodate), and has found exactly what he's looking for in this movement.

The thing is, his "emergent church," isn't one. If it doesn't walk like a duck or talk like a duck, it isn't a duck. They don't have any leaderhsip- just a group of "mature" folks who spearhead things. They don't have any defined services. Sometimes they'll just get together at someone's house and have spiritual discussions, on topics like how evolution must be right because it reflects in the universe itself the creative energies of God. Othertimes they'll just sing. I think they've even had times of corporate art (i.e. painting). Basically, what ever floats their postmodern boats. There's no preaching, no anything that would remotely bear the resemblance of a New Testement church. Basically, it's evangelical culture-accomodation taken to its full logical conclusion, in the process becoming "Christian" in name only. If that.

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