Anthony Bradley has an interesting post on the farewell of the Emergent Church, post here at the Aquila Report. I do hope the reports are not greatly exaggerated, to quote Mr. Twain. Bradley notes:
[Rob] Bell’s April 4 sermon recounts that Mars Hill [Bible Church] entered a process of re-thinking everything about itself as it has grown and matured into an institution over the past 11 years. Mars Hill and other churches born out of the emerging church era are no longer new, trendy, “cool,” nor innovative. These formerly “cool” churches are full of singles, married couples, growing children, balding middle-age men, and so on, who are all trying to figure out how to live a redemptive life here and now while confronting daily struggles with sin, repentance, grace, loving the poor, marriage, raising children, the recession, ailing parents, etc. Bell is launching a new focus on the implications of the Resurrection. Resurrection signals victory over sin, death, and the devil. … Jesus is victory. God has a redeemed a people to be his intimate allies in the renewal of all things through the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is neither provocative nor cutting edge in the Kingdom. This is simply the teaching of the early church oriented around the Nicene Creed.
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