3 Responses to “Pentecostal and emerging...”

1. #  Earl Creps 9:16 PM

   Thanks for the post. I would like to get some feedback on the Pentecost/EmChurch connection from your readers. Earl  

2. #  teirney 4:24 AM

   I would agree with Earl on the following point, which I think he described well in his post:
   
   I think the biggest weakness of the Emerging Church conversation is that it tends to 'talk' more than it 'walks' (forgive the cheesy labels). For all the talk of diversity, the movement is mostly white, intellectual, mainline protestants. And for all the talk of "experience," they/we (not sure where I fall here) still get together in hotel conference rooms to discuss church theory like the purpose driven's did before us/them. If there's one thing you can say about Pentecostals, for better or worse, they don't like to 'talk' without 'walking'. And I guess I think this is part of the reason it has taken so long for the Emerging conversation and Pentecostalism to get together - because the EmChurch is just starting to walk.  

3. #  Jose 8:55 PM

   Pentecostal and Emergent is an oximoron. Pentecostals believe the Word of God as the absolute truth written in the Bible. Emergent philosophy views this as ignorance, becuase there is much more to life than 1 book. To the Emergent movement, the Bible is no more than a nice textbook that they can use at their discretion. So the answer, is NO. Emergent is secularism; Pentecostals believe that the Bible is the absolute source of truth.  

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