Emerging Reflection

Please read Scot McKnight's article Five Streams of the Emerging Church for Christianity Today, then continue.

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This excellent article articulates exactly many things I have thought, and indeed experienced, in the last two or three years.

*I have been drawn toward

**CHARISMATISM**

-positive in its expectation of God's continued activity

-negative in its skepticism toward historic christianity.


when I noticed this, I


*began to feel a positive draw toward liturgy which in turn drew me toward

**CATHOLICISM**

-positive in its push for more historic Christianity

-negative in its enforcement of non-biblical theology



*Simultaneously feeling drawn from inactivity toward

**SOCIAL ACTIVISM**

-positive in finally recognizing a "ACT" command in the gospel call
-positive in seeing the communal aspect of the faith
-positive in feeling closer to Jesus as a displayer of the faith
-positive in its questioning of unfettered violence

-negative in its draw towared unchecked inclusivism and absolute pacifism

-like the draw to being a democrat without criticizing abortion or total tolerance
-like the denial of governmental righteousness of policing or criminal justice, or the strong country helping the weak
-like the feeling that if God were godly enough he would be a universalist


*What in the end feels the most like the answer is reexamination of the actual

**GOSPEL**

I don't say this snydely to anyone but myself.

I think it is important to recognize an

--absolute defined gospel (ONLY JESUS is King, he is raised, he is reigning, he is God) for an
--indiscriminant audience (the worst sinner is called) without an abandonment of the
--covenantal structure of Government and Justice driven by the
--creational pull toward peace and generosity and grace

I am sure I have more to say, but enough for now.

-Luke