Emergent/Emerging Churches

[judson1982]

Are any participants in these structures? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? How can they be used to carry out the Great Commission and to build up Believers?

 

[dayhiker]

I'm not a member of a emerging church.
I like them because of their openness to ask new questions and their openness to new answers that serve people more than some of the old answers.
I do have a problem with taking old stories and translation them into today's world as if that also brings all the truth from the past into the present.
I do see weakness with modernity that many of those attacking the emergent church ignore as if everything is OK. I once heard a talk that put forth the thought that conservatism and liberalism are a result of modernism. It made sense to me so its not one of my working views of who the current world works. So I don't ever expect one of them to win. An emergent, post modern world may provide a way out of that fight but its still to early to know if a new way of thought will be better or worse than the current fight between liberals and conservatives.