Emerging and/or Arrived?

In a recent exchange
on the VCC worship blog,
Rob referred us
to the Quest Church
website. It was there that I discovered a very stimulating piece by Pastor Eugene Cho, a sort of apologia for this emergent Covenant church in Seattle. You can read it at http://www.seattlequest.org/whyquest.html.
Here's my initial response to one part of what Cho has written.

Eugene Cho asks a critical question: "How do you take the absolute Truth of Jesus Christ to a postmodern generation of relativism? In response, I have a question: "Is there a place for a church which invites and equips its members to use their Christ-renewed minds/reason/intellects to challenge the postmodern generation's relativistic assumptions?"

I realize that if there is, it will be a small niche in the larger Kingdom; but is it not a necessary part for the full functioning of the Body? Modernism's idolization of reason has left our culture with a bad taste; but does that entail throwing out the baby with the bathwater? At philosophically transitional times like these, it becomes difficult to hold on to the mean, and not be swept off to the opposite extreme.

Bottom line: it is important to understand that this peculiar calling doesn't necessarily have to eclipse the mystery, justice, compassion, and creativity that should also characterize Christ's Body. But doesn't somebody need to do the work of humbly showing the Truth Who is not only emerging in our experience, but Who has arrived and is living among us, calling us to Himself, and inviting us to conform ourselves to Him?

Kathy, it seems to me that it is that latter part you are pointing to when you spoke about the importance of Christian formation. To that end, I wonder what the relationship is between worship and biblical literacy. Of course, being able to quote Bible verses is no guarantee for encountering God. But in my opinion, we need to strive for a balance of subjectivity/experience with objectivity/content, and vice versa. But maybe there are other opinions here. Is that balance a goal for the new service? Is it a goal for Valley Covenant Church?