Jolly Blogger


By the way, I've found out over the last two weeks, I really like "Jolly Blogger". He's a Reformed Church guy, who talks about a lot of what going on in the American evangelical church world, emergent included. He seems pretty well read, circumspective and thoughtful, (he conservative and traditional without making a rush to judgement on a lot of issues including Emergent, but on the other hand he sticks to his guns more then some)


http://jollyblogger.typepad.com/jollyblogger/


Anyway Jolly in his last post, covers Emergent evangelism, and he echoes some of my concerns (that some pomo/emergents are soft shoeing the exclusivity of the Christian gospel).


And on some of these issues I've been doing lots and lots of thinking, and praying and been thinking about doing some writing on such topics as Orthodox evangelism, and discussing some troubling trends that I think are going on in American Christianity .

[edit - add on. Some more quotes and web sites]

this blog/post is also worth noting too

"I guess I just wonder if the emerging leaders are coming close to throwing the baby out with the bathwater. "

www.emergingevangelism.com


"The Truth:The Emergent, syncretized, neo-pagan gospel soup is best described by the late Dr.
Francis Schaeffer:

"While I was in Finland some years ago, A Bible-believing university professor there used the following illustration. A new liberal, he says, is like a shopkeeper who keeps many things under the counter. When the old-fashioned liberal comes in and asks for old-fashioned liberalism, the new liberal reaches under the counter and says, 'That is just what we have here.' When the Bible-beliving Christian comes in, the new liberal reaches under the counter and says, 'That is just what we have here.' The new theology is able to do this because of its both-and mentality. Opposites can still be mutually true." (The Church Before the Watching World, p. 125)

http://herescope.blogspot.com/2005/11/emergent-post-colonial.html