This article discusses the relationship between being baptist and emerging christianity. Of course, many in the Richmond Virginia area are Baptists so this article is quite relevant to our city. As I look at the comparison of what it means to be a Baptist and have emerging thoughts I believe more and more that there is a consistency there and not a conflict.
The original Baptists in this country were fair, open minded people who accepted other interpretations of Christianity. I believe those baptist roots are going to be revived eventually.
2nd Opinion: Emerging church: Threat or ally? from the Baptist Standard
Dave
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What I found most interesting is how completely the article was misuderstood by the first person who commented on it. The whole analogy of difference–a “jigsaw puzzle” view vs. a “building blocks” view–was lost on the commenter, who is stuck on the greater “meaning” of each of the blocks, as if a building block has any meaning apart from what gets built with it. This is the whole point, isn’t it? That, in a postmodern view, no individual block has ANY meaning outside of the context of the individual’s own experience?
I had a conversation today about one of the famous (infamous?) purpose in life books. I proposed that there is a danger in preaching to people that they are special because people will interpret that as they (plural) are special when in fact it is you (singular) and you ( singular) and you (singular) etc that is special. When the group is special it can breed hatred, bigotry, and a whole other host of potentially counterproductive thoughts. When you (singular) are special, then it demands that you realize that each of the “others” are special too.
I like the building blocks too because my block house keeps changing as I see what can made of the blocks.
Dave
True enough! A jigsaw puzzle has only one correct order; a block house has no such limits.
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