Comments on: Emerging & Evangelical Churches: Friends or Foes? http://www.gladysganiel.com/emerging-church/emerging-evangelical-churches-friends-or-foes/ Building a Church Without Walls Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:23:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: rodney neill http://www.gladysganiel.com/emerging-church/emerging-evangelical-churches-friends-or-foes/comment-page-1/#comment-2204 rodney neill Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:14:37 +0000 http://www.gladysganiel.com/emerging-church/emerging-evangelical-churches-friends-or-foes/#comment-2204 I am definitely kindred spirits with the emerging church, follow the coversation online and in books and been involved in ikon plus other emerging church projects in NI- the point raised by a member of the audience that 'these critiques caricatured evangelical Christianity' is very true...cary post was spot on 'To the extent that the emerging church has developed primarily out of evangelicalism, it unavoidably defines itself against it. Because emergent Christians are offering a critique, they pick out all evangelicalism’s shortcomings, making it seem like they are pounding away at a ‘straw man’ or a stereotype'.... is o so true as well Rodney I am definitely kindred spirits with the emerging church, follow the coversation online and in books and been involved in ikon plus other emerging church projects in NI-

the point raised by a member of the audience that ‘these critiques caricatured evangelical Christianity’ is very true…cary post was spot on

‘To the extent that the emerging church has developed primarily out of evangelicalism, it unavoidably defines itself against it. Because emergent Christians are offering a critique, they pick out all evangelicalism’s shortcomings, making it seem like they are pounding away at a ‘straw man’ or a stereotype’…. is o so true as well

Rodney

]]>