Scot McKnight is a voice I have come to trust on matters relating to the emerging/emergent church movement. He has a talent for being part of the EC movement and remaining objective about its flaws.
A regular feature of his blog (“Jesus Creed”) is “Letters to Emerging Christians” where he writes public responses to [...]
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Scot McKinght on "What The Movements Fear"
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church on May 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 5
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 22, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Binding and Loosing
Jesus gave his disciples power: “I will give you the keys to the kingdom…” (Matt 16 and 18). Bell sees this as a gift that keeps on giving, reaching into our time and into our lives. “If we take Jesus seriously,” he says, “and actually see it as our responsibility to [...]
Smashing Brickworld: Rob Bell’s "Velvet Elvis" – Part 4
Posted in Emerging / Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Theology on April 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Trampoline vs. Brickworld
The opposite of Bell’s trampoline metaphor of faith is what he calls “brickworld”. In brickworld, “you spend a lot of time talking about how right you are. Which of course leads to how wrong everybody else is. Which then leads to defending the wall.” In describing the structure of Brickworld Bell says,
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