The Emergent Church

Over the past month I have been doing a little reading about the Emergent Church. For someone who has no idea about what the Emergent or what they stand for, a good book on the topic is, "Why were not Emergent (by two guys who should be)" This book was great for a basic understanding of the Emergent church and it's beliefs. This book uses quotes of many Emergent leaders such as Rob Bell who was quoted saying, "Our words aren't absolutes. Only God is absolute, and God has no intention of sharing this absoluteness with anything, especially words people have come up to talk about Him." This mentality is something that is in no way supported biblically. Yet many people continue to, "give up," on theology and the understanding of theological terms. Men of God who use theological terms in sermons who were once seen as respected theologians, are now being seen as pious men who use big words to distance themselves from the, "common," christian. When in reality, it is our own attempts to be, "cool," this entails not studying stuffy theology, but raising our hands during a worship service, or experimenting with spiritual gifts that due to our own spiritual maturity we have no business, "testing." C.S Lewis in his book mere Christianity says this, "They all say the ordinary reader does not want Theology, give him plain practical religion. I have rejected their advice. I do not think the ordinary reader is such a fool. Theology means the science of God; and I think any man who wants to think about God at all would like to have the clearest and most accurate ideas about Him which are available. You are not children why should you be treated like children." I could not agree with Mr. Lewis more. If Mr. Lewis were to meet Rob Bell today what do you think he would say to him? Would he comment on his wonderful use of colorful blog style books? Or would he ask why do you Mr. Bell thinks were all idiots? In

1 Corinthians Paul addresses the church in Corinth and informs them on their infancy in Christ. Paul was upset because the people of Corinth were not taking the steps needed to grow spiritually. Likewise we need to be ever vigilant and prepared to learn and grow at all times.