emerging missional

churches

1. Recentering the gospel on Christ and the Kingdom of God

2. Engaging culture without a sacred-secular dualism

3. Doing life together in community between Sundays

4. Listening with openness, including the outsider

5. Serving those in need without ulterior motive

What is emerging?

websites

Emergent-UK.org

Brianmclaren.net

Amahoro.info

Emerging Churches

By Eddie Gibbs and Ryan K. Bolger

(Baker, 2005)

6. Involving participants actively in worship

7. Valuing creativity in the image of the Creator

8. Leading through networks, with or without hierarchies

9. Integrating ancient and avante-garde in spiritual formation

Three ways to think of “a generous orthodoxy” and the emerging missional church (or the church that is emerging) -

As center a…

a fringe

a stage

a n d a r a n g e.

As center

Liturgical

Charismatic

Social Action

Evangelical

a fringe

Is this “the emerging church?”

A new “slice of the pie?”

catholic

Anglican

baptist

pentecostal

Or are these the churches that are emerging?

A new ring on the tree…catholic

reformed

baptist

pentecostal

Or are both forms of the church that is emerging?

catholic

reformed

baptist

pentecostal

How will they relate?

a stage

Consider that we live in at least three worlds.

Pre-modern world

Modern world

Emerging world

2006

The church that is emerging in the aftermath of …

-The Enlightenment methodology of Rene Descartes

-The Mechanistic universe of Sir Isaac Newton

-The Colonial Project of Europe (and the U.S.)

-The Holocaust and 2 World Wars

- Industrialism and environmental crisis

The church that is emerging in the aftermath of …

-The rise of the Religious Right

- the collapse of secular left

-The end of apartheid

- Sept. 11 and resurgence of nationalism

- the rise of consumerism and theocapitalism

- the internet and virtual reality

- religious broadcasting

- absolutism and relativism

- AIDs and global climate change

Old Paradigm

Early Transition

Late TransitionNew Paradigm

Old Paradigm

Early Transition

Late TransitionNew Paradigm

The Churches We Know

The Churches that are emerging

The Churches of Tomorrow

The Churches We Know

The Churches that are emerging

The Churches of Tomorrow

The Churches We Love and Respect