Often I get asked the question, "Zack, what is the emerging church?" in which my answer is often, "You know, I am not sure how to define it."  I usually tell the askers of such a question that I am not so sure I am comfortable with the label "emerging" applied to myself.

 But…have no fear. Scot McKnight (blog) has recently come up with a definition for those of us who aren't sure they qualify as proper experts on the "emerging church".  This is a great read.  It's about 30 pages and in it he tackles D.A. Carson's critique of the emerging church, the different streams of the emerging movement, and the distinctions of this movement frommpast church movements.

Mark Traphagen (who blogs at the foolish sage) posted the full text of Scot McKnight's definition which he gave in  his first address to the Westminster Theological Seminary Student Association Forum An Eternal Word in an ‘Emerging World’?

(Link via TallSkinnyKiwi)