Brad alerts us to this sendup in Lark News:
"Emergent leaders call for ‘missional re-understanding of Jesus-followership and Christ-focus imbued with passionate creativity and emotional authenticity,’ whatever that means
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — At a recent conference-like "gathering" of emergent church leaders, various factions sparred over competing visions for the future of the movement.
Leaders on one side called for "deepening and continuously beautiful efforts toward emotionally true self-divulgence and confession." Other leaders countered with a call for "a theological re-purposing of our objective and subjective missionality within a framework of God-love." Because few in attendance actually understood what either side meant, both ideas were tabled.
The sides did agree that emergent leaders should continue to take every opportunity to make casual, cool cultural references to popular television shows, movies and Internet phenomena to introduce quasi-intellectual spiritual points about the state of the American church.
They also pledged to maintain their reputation for being "more spiritually honest than the millions of people who attend institutionalized churches every week and blindly go along with the programs, sermons and mindset that make American Christianity the colossal failure it is today."
After toasting themselves with various hyper-cool micro-brews, the audience adjourned to begin 7- and 8-hour theological bull sessions in their hotel rooms and local bars.
Conference organizers say they will meet again to do the same thing next year. "
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2 comments:
Sooo funny!!
Bwaa-Ha....!!!
Lord have mercy.
It is wise not only to honor one's natural Father and Mother but also one's spiritual forebears. To speak from spiritual heights with contempt of those from whom you sprang is spiritually very dangerous.
One sees it in the radical Protestants who hate everything they think is Catholic, and as a result destroy the foundations of the Scripture they purport to derive their criticisms from.
Having been one of them, I must also add that there are many Lord loving people in that camp, who have prayed for me.
Lord have mercy
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