Comments on: Perspective on Emergent

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:13:41 +0000

@Drew: I have found it amazing to read your thoughts, recently. The blog is wonderful, but I’m seeing a great deal of wisdom in these comments that you leave as well. Thanks so much for leaving something so perceptive here.

@Blake: I’m with you and Phyllis Tickle, and think we are on the cusp of something radical. I think we as Western culture have been on the cusp since our arrogance led us to Auschwitz, our fear led us to create the Internet in case Washington was blown off the face of the earth, and our establishment rubbed the early hippies and goths and punks the wrong way, and any number of other things. Emergent has a great role in those things, but still is only one part.

By: Blake Huggins

Blake Huggins — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:59:32 +0000

Good thoughts here Jonathan. I especially appreciate that last paragraph. We’ve got to learn to hold our models loosely. We have to.

And, anyone who was expecting this thing to change everything overnight (i.e. in 10 or so year) is a bit a naive I think. Sure, there is something going on. I’m with Phyllis Tickle, I think we are on the cusp of some radical evolution in the church, but I think it will be gradual, for better or worse. And, Emergent is only one part of that larger movement I think.

By: Drew Tatusko

Drew Tatusko — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:58:57 +0000

I actually just posted a response to josh brown as well. was going to be a comment on julie’s post, but got too long… my contention is that we need to differentiate change from revolution. have the changes you mention been happening and for good reasons? i think so and totally agree with what you are saying as well. is it a revolution? no. never has been. and that’s ok. i think that those who were expecting a revoltution that never happened look a lot like their boomer parents who may have at one time thought of a revolution too, but that never happened the way the pictured it. i think we have to manage expectations and take a realistic inventory of the kinds of changes we want to continue to see, those we want to influence, and match those to our gifts. if god has given each of us gifts to work for the kingdom, then we need to understand what those are and practice them as diligently as tiger woods practices his driving and putting.