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This site is here to help people who have questions about Christianity, being a Christian, or about the Christian Church in the Richmond VA area. We are here for you to have a safe place to engage in conversations that may be difficult to have in traditional settings. Emergingrichmond does not affiliate with one denomination or another, but many of the ideas presented are based on trying to understand what Christianity is in our culture. See our about page or read about some of the ideas and through the links or blog.
The meetings page will help coordinate a meeting location for those of us who want to meet in person.
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Dave
Fr. Richard Rohr on Emerging Church (taken from Brian McLaren’s site)
It seems to me that the emerging church is emerging because people are finding the ability to have a grateful foot in both camps—one in the Tradition (the mother church) along with another foot inside of a support group that parallels, deepens, broadens, grounds, and personalizes the traditional message. But you don’t throw out the traditional message, or you have to keep rebuilding the infrastructure or creating a superstructure all over again.
The emerging church becomes an accountability system for the Tradition, which is needed to keep us honest and not just lost in words. This is a new kind of reformation in which we don’t react, we don’t rebel, we don’t start from zero again. You can’t start a spiritual reformation by spinning wheels, particularly not angry wheels. You have to be for something—totally—or it is not religion.And so the appropriate questions are: What are you in love with? What do you believe in? What is the heaven that you have already discovered? What good thing do you need to share? This is the only work of soul.
Adapted from the CAC webcast, Nov. 8, 2008:
“What is The Emerging Church?”
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